How to Beat the Permanent Covidocracy

How to Beat the Permanent Covidocracy: "Despite the declines in alleged infections and deaths, vaccine rollouts, and continued progress in finding possible treatments for Covid-19, the pandemic panic remains at high pitch. Until there’s some restoration of reason, we’re shooting BBs at a bull elephant. As Charles MacKay observed in...

Cuomo and the Failure of Covid Absolutism

Cuomo and the Failure of Covid Absolutism: "In a tour of television talk shows shortly after President Biden was inaugurated, Cuomo recited his latest catchphrase: 'Incompetent government kills people.' This intended slapdown of Trump is recoiling badly on the New York governor. If Cuomo is impeached or forced to resign for his Covid...

How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic

How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic: "During this pandemic, governments exasperated rather than eased an out-of-proportion, fear-driven reaction to the pandemic. Actively fueling hysteria has exacted terrible economic, social, mental health, and educational consequences without providing demonstrable relief from the effects of...

Fauci Was Duplicitous on the AIDS Epidemic Too

Fauci Was Duplicitous on the AIDS Epidemic Too: "If you want to see an end to the lockdown madness, the ongoing destruction of human lives and livelihoods, and the unprecedented government failures that have come to characterize our daily routines for the last year, the lessons of this administrator’s performance should be obvious. It’s time...

W. S. Jevons (1865) on the Limits to Renewables

W. S. Jevons (1865) on the Limits to Renewables: "William Stanley Jevons was the first intellectual to question the ability of renewables to serve as primary energies for industrial society. The deep, thorough insight of the father of energy economics remains relevant today." ~ Robert L. Bradley Jr.

The Florida Versus California Showdown

The Florida Versus California Showdown: "California and Florida provide a clear example for the dubious efficacy of Covid-19 restrictions. Their disparities elucidate the enduring costs of lockdowns with regard to the economy and livelihoods of residents. The states also pave the way for us to better understand whether authoritarian...

Covid Cases, like Political Careers, are Dropping Like Rocks

Covid Cases, like Political Careers, are Dropping Like Rocks: "Whatever your theory as to why cases are dropping like rocks – natural immunity, PCR testing changes, drops in tests, seasonality – none of it can be credited to political interventions. What the interventions might do, however, is cause dozens if not hundreds of political careers also to drop...

Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?

Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?: "America is now a country where differing interpretations of science in order to seek the truth is the new anathema. I fear that 'the science' has been seriously damaged, and many have simply become fatigued by the arguments. That is even worse, because fatigue will allow fallacy to triumph over...

Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns?

Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns?: "That we will look back with astonishment at what has happened to the world is a near certainty. The folly! And people of the future will never stop asking that great question of why. The answer is finally unsatisfying. It was a massive screw up by people and groups who wanted to try something...

The Superspreader Scam

Seven Times “Superspreader” Events Were Overblown: "In an international comparison between countries that implemented lockdown policies and those that did not, Stanford University researchers found 'no evidence of large anti-contagion effects from mandatory stay-at-home and business closure policies.' Perhaps if the media reported on these...

The Flight of the Covid Quacks

The Flight of the Covid Quacks: "Even the most statist public health official completely oblivious to Hayekian critiques of central planning must know, deep down, that issuing general medical orders from on high is quackery. They now flee in great flocks but what will it matter if other quacks replace them? We don’t need new...

Cuomo’s Comeuppance

As Health Officials Resign, Cuomo Says He Doesn't Trust The Experts: Nine top health officials in New York have resigned in recent months because Gov. Andrew Cuomo refused to listen to them.