Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The 2007 Origins of Forced School Closings and Mandatory Human Separation

The 2007 Origins of Forced School Closings and Mandatory Human Separation: "If you have any doubt that the main push for the lockdown was less about therapy than models, inspired by the fantasies of a computer scientist rather than a genuine expert in viruses, a social experiment conducted with disregard for freedom and the rule of law, a wild and foolhardy central...

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

No, Lockdowns Don’t Save Lives

Did the Lockdown Save Lives?: No matter how much we try to spin this in our heads, no matter how much we want to believe that something good has come out of this catastrophe, we are all going to have someday to deal with the terrible but likely reality that it was all for naught.

Friday, May 15, 2020

The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea

The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea: So far as anyone can tell, the intellectual machinery that made this mess was invented 14 years ago, and not by epidemiologists but by computer-simulation modelers. It was adopted not by experienced doctors – they warned ferociously against it – but by politicians.

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Most Places are Not New York: A Look Through the COVID-19 Data

Most Places are Not New York: A Look Through the COVID-19 Data: Economic activity in one country is dependent upon economic activity of its trading partners. Trade makes us rich because it allows each of us to provide value and offer it to others in the market. If half of the world is in lockdown, we are all poorer for it.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Illegal Lockdowns

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Decision Is Brilliant: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court decided by a 4-3 vote on Wednesday May 13, 2020 to strike down the state’s “Safer at Home” order, its COVID-19 economic lockdown in other words. It did so completely, immediately, and unequivocally.

Monday, May 04, 2020

Doctor Fauci Fails At Central Planning

The Crisis Experts are Themselves the Crisis: So are Fauci and Gates wrong, or are Musk and Burry incorrect? Should local, state and national politicians seek economic re-opening, or is this virus so lethal that we must remain locked down for weeks? No one really knows. Since no one does, better for governments and experts to do nothing so...

Sunday, May 03, 2020

Politics Kills Actual Science

A Wizard of Oz Virus: The COVID-19 Hoax: �When I speak of a hoax and The Virus, I don’t mean there isn’t in our population a pathogen identified loosely as COVID-19 or, as the “unwoke” might say, the Wuhan Flu. As with past respiratory diseases, it’s also ...