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July 23, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… When it came to debating the morality and prudence of COVID lockdowns, their proponents had an ever-growing death toll statistic on their side. Those who feared the dark side of coerced lockdowns lacked the advantage of a dedicated government stat.
July 20, 2020 – Raymond J. March …… The complex and quickly changing course of a pandemic requires adaptation and decentralized decision making that government is rarely able to provide. Our best hope for putting drugs and other medical goods to their best use is to allow competition and private enterprise to find solutions.
July 17, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… The reason New York failed to “flatten the curve” and Sweden succeeded probably has little to do with lockdowns.
July 15, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… “Public health crisis” is essentially a left-wing stock phrase at this point, as is reflected by the fact that the solutions proffered to the social ills in question are virtually always some sort of government regulation or income redistribution scheme.
July 14, 2020 – Ross Marchand …… Continuing to fund the WHO will only waste limited tax dollars and undermine public health at the expense of integrity and best practices.
July 13, 2020 – Craig Eyermann …… The coronavirus pandemic is providing a treasure trove of case studies in how government bureaucrats are failing ordinary people. These failures occur because government officials are not truly accountable for their actions.
July 7, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… In a recent interview, Dr. John Ioannidis had a harsh assessment of modelers who predicted as many as 40 million people would die and the US healthcare system would be overrun because of COVID-19.
July 1, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… The surge in extreme global poverty would be the first increase since 1998.
June 30, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… A second round of lockdowns will assault an America already suffering from widespread unemployment and a fragile economy. Even worse, round two is likely to last longer than round one, bringing an even larger economic and social toll.
June 14, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… The ‘experts’ may have subjected us to a blunder greater than any since the Iraq War.