This is why people that work in U.S. health care are trying so hard to keep the number of cases down. When medical systems become overwhelmed, they have to make heartbreaking decisions about who lives and who dies. "As his department receives coronavirus patients who...
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Covidonomics: What Will the Covid-19 Crisis Do to Our Political Economy?
The Covid-19 crisis is fueling a race to find solutions for the problem while also shutting down large parts of the economy and giving governments enormous economic powers. Except for wartime mobilization, this situation is unprecedented. In this article I discuss...
Trump Is Pulling a Hillary
He's started a propaganda campaign to blame a foreign power for his own grotesque failure.
Please Don’t Hoard N95 Masks! Hospitals Need Them Desperately.
This is a note just posted by my sister, a nurse at a hospital in Austin: I know everyone has heard the healthcare workers cry for getting safe PPE. But I don't think I've really read anything that explains exactly why. My last shift at the hospital, I was asked to...
What Limits Are Needed On Government During This Outbreak?
Disease epidemics are perfectly solvable by libertarian theory. If someone is infected with a dangerous disease, and they bring themselves into a position where they can infect others, then they have violated someone's rights. In an ideal ancap scenario, places like...
This Martial Law Will End, and End Badly
First, let's get the three principles for the post-COVID-19 world out there: If you think COVID-19 is fake, or not really scary, you don't know science and are an ignorant person. If you post cavalierly about frolicking socially with your friends, you have no empathy...
Flattening the Curve, Prolonging the Pain
I want to discuss the above graphic since it, or some version of it, has been promulgating the 24/7 media coverage and the internet. I realize the point of “flattening the curve” is to decrease the number of people who get COVID-19. That seems reasonable on face...
Police: Criminals
Every single day without fail the Free Thought Project site has stories of police atrocities committed against the American people. Here they beat the hell out of an old man for fun. Here they plant drugs on an innocent man. Here they kidnap small children and turn...
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