We Can’t Trust Governments to Manage a Pandemic

We Can’t Trust Governments to Manage a Pandemic: It is unconscionable—indeed, criminally irresponsible—to predicate policies as extreme and draconian as these lockdowns on such poor models and incomplete data—particularly when the very first serious seroprevalence survey we have in the country explodes the foundation of these policies.

How Wrong Were the Models and Why?

How Wrong Were the Models and Why?: Epidemiological expertise may convey specialized knowledge about the nature of disease transmission that is specifically suited to forecasting a pandemic’s spread. But it does not exempt the modelers from social scientific best practices for testing the robustness of their claims. Nor does it...

Lockdowns Don’t Work

Lockdowns Don’t Work: Many policies provide public-health benefits in pandemics, such as making facemasks mandatory, cancelling school, and banning large assemblies and long-distance travel. But ordering people to cower in their homes, harassing people for having playdates in the park, and ordering small businesses to cl

We Don’t Need a Cure to Reopen

We Don’t Need a Cure to Reopen: I hope someday soon we will once again be having very rational yet vigorous discussions about the fundamental issues related to the liberal principles of justice and political economy, and we can point to the resiliency and ingenuity of a free people even in the face of adversity as one of the...

The Political Class and the Media Are Spinning COVID19 Tales

Now It’s Obvious: The Political Class and the Media Are Spinning Tales: Rather than accepting the epistemic limitations of the current crisis as a reason to abstain from aggressive policies, they double down on the same. And when their chosen courses go awry or fail to deliver on their promised salvation, history is rewritten to obscure the fact that such promises...

The Monumental Failure of the CDC

The Monumental Failure of the CDC: This time, these government failures have resulted in millions of Americans being all stuck in their homes, schools being closed, the economy in a recession, and 18,000 people having died so far.

Maybe there's a reason why dire projections about COVID-19 have been wrong

Maybe there's a reason why dire projections about COVID-19 have been wrong: COVID-19 has proven to be a brutal flu for those unlucky enough to get it.��Any new disease that's successfully left animals behind for human-to-human transmission is highly risky.��Nevertheless, the current insanity gripping ...

The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers

The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers: Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted?

It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us.

This revelation comes a f...

People Adapt, Thwarting Government Plans

People Adapt, Thwarting Government Plans: If you derive no other takeaway from the political response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, let it be this: human behavior adapts in real-time to ever-changing expectations of the future.

Political Furor over Drugs that Might Help Fight against COVID-19

Political Furor over Drugs that Might Help Fight against COVID-19: Here's what we're dealing with: