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April 8, 2020 – Bradley Thomas …… The Left conveniently ignores dozens of state-dominated and state-controlled medical systems and decides that the lack of preparedness for COVID-19 was all the fault of those small slivers of healthcare systems that are actually private.
April 7, 2020 – Jeff Deist …… The coronavirus demonstrates how crises become local.
April 7, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… How much must total mortality increase to justify a global suspension of commerce and the rule of law? One percent? Ten percent? And what if overall mortality doesn’t even go up?
April 6, 2020 – Ross Marchand …… A recent study by MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Boston University found that consumers care far more about reviews and prices than government-mandated credentials.
April 5, 2020 – Shawnna Morris …… We have never been better-equipped to cope with a nationwide quarantine of schoolchildren.
April 2, 2020 – Matthew Tanous …… What needs to be done in such a crisis is not to attempt to steer the market to ensure it provides what is needed, but to let it free to do what it always does: match the goals of entrepreneurial producers with the needs of the populace.
March 31, 2020 – The Editors of the Mises Institute …… The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people must decide for themselves how and when to reopen society and return to their daily lives.
March 31, 2020 – Hunter Hastings …… We are about to enter a production slowdown—a collapse, really—not because some businesses miscalculated their investments, but because government intervened drastically and without warning to shut down many businesses.
March 31, 2020 – Frank Hollenbeck …… It’s time to stop pretending that the policies favored by some biologists—who know nothing about how economies work to lessen the health effects of poverty—come without grave costs to public health.
March 30, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… Our World in Data researchers announced that they have stopped relying on World Health Organization data for their models.