On Facebook I’ve shared dozens of articles on pandemic, public health, and lockdown debates Here is are recent shares: • Irish Scientists and Doctors Inveigh Against Lockdowns (AIER, Nov. 19, 2020) The paper shows...
Military Adventures, Postal Subsidies, Malaria, and Cholera US military commitments after guano (earlier post) turned to subsidizing mail sent across Central American with postal subsidies. The demand for mail and Americans traveling to California...
After months of national and state experiments with lockdowns, leading epidemiologists and public health officials call for shifted to “focused protection.” Better protect those at high risk (usually in elder care homes and with...
Okay, I don’t really have a new book. I’ve never tried a formal diet (mostly I research and speak on the economics of public policy debate topics). But like most people I have experience...
Just three weeks! Experts advise to wear masks, social distance, maybe return to lock down and then the virus could vanish and pandemic end. Maybe so, but epidemiologists, politicians, and bloggers disagree. With new...
[Revised from original May 16th post] Mostly stuck in the pandemic, curious about Covid-19, social distancing, and lockdowns, plus regulation of testing, masks, and treatments. Best maybe not to watch evening news (better described...
• Resolved: Individuals have a right to health care. Consider the language from the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...
State regulation of hairbraiders was the subject of the Braiding Freedom video in the last post. Continuing the theme of the last few posts on the costs and injustices of overregulation, this post looks again at the...
Ilya Somin, writing in Forbes, notes that “low-information” voters don’t know much about the new federal healthcare reform law. Surveys show voters are ignorant about a lot of other federal policies too. Yet voters...
