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What Sweden Teaches About Pandemic Economics 0
- Culture
- May 19, 2020
Sweden’s unique policy approach in this pandemic has been described as “freewheeling” in international news media, but it would be more accurate to call it balanced. Johan Giesecke, a world-renowned epidemiologist and advisor to the Swedish Government, calls it “evidence-based.” The Swedish Public Health Agency early decided against lockdowns and quarantining the population. Most people
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Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening 0
- Economics
- May 19, 2020
America is slowly beginning to reopen, with different states running the course at varying speeds. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently repealed state-wide regulations instantaneously, most states do not have the benefit of such decisive action, and are instead suffering through phases arbitrarily decided by state and local governments or executive fiat. In most of America, liquor
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The ACLU Loses Its Way 0
- Culture
- May 19, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union used to be a great institution. Founded in January 1920, the ACLU sought to become, in its own words, “the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.” Over the decades, the organization fought for civil liberties even when no one else would. The ACLU fought against
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Parents Need to Learn to Live With Their Children 0
- Culture
- May 19, 2020
Coronavirus has brought hardship and suffering to countless Americans. But for some parents, the worst part of this whole crisis is having to spend time with their own children. At least that’s what you would think after reading a New York Post article titled “Can parents survive months of hell as the coronavirus cancels summer camps?” Apparently,
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The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea 0
- History
- May 18, 2020
Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020,
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NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths 0
- Politics
- May 18, 2020
On May 7, I wrote about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial policy of prohibiting eldercare facilities from screening recently discharged hospital patients for COVID-19. The order, passed by New York’s Department of Health on March 25, stated: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed
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