Anyone want to start placing bets on where all this stuff is going? Israel First? A Puerto Rican warehouse?
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News Roundup 4/23/20
US News The USS Comfort, a large Navy hospital ship, will leave New York after treating only 179 patients. The ship leaves as the governor said it was no longer necessary. [Link] A new poll finds that 73% of vets and 69% of military families support withdrawing US...
If Face Masks Are Mandatory, Then It’s Time to End Mask Patents
President Trump is convening with governors to reopen the economy, which will likely mean some sort of compulsory face mask order. Now is the time to seriously consider scrapping the patents on masks such as the N95. Government at all levels has severely overreacted...
4/17/20 William Arkin on the Secret Military Task Force Preparing to Secure Washington D.C.
William Arkin comes back on the show to discuss continuity planning in the U.S. government. He notes that the measures being taken in Washington D.C. to ensure the integrity of a constitutional government during an emergency are somewhat at odds with the steps that...
News Roundup 4/22/20
US News Prisons in three states are surveilling prisoners' phone calls for mentions of the coronavirus. [Link] Eighty-six members of the just-graduated Air Force Academy class will join the Space Force. [Link] A new documentary explains how Bill Clinton prevented the...
The “War” on Covid Is War on Our Freedoms.
On FPF #482, I discuss how the US government is seizing more of our rights and money in the name of fighting pandemic. In Wisconsin, a police officer forced a young girl to delete her social media posts under threat of arrest. Now, the Pentagon is prepping to get...
Feds Continue to Steal Protective Equipment From Actual People
USA Today: Delaware medical supplier says FEMA seized 400,000 N95 masks, now he's out millions of dollars WILMINGTON, Del. – As pleas for protective masks continue amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Delaware supplier of medical equipment is disputing the legality of...
We Don’t Need a Cure to Reopen
Back on March 19th, 2020, I pointed to this piece by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas at my blog – Coordination Problem — where he states very clearly the reality constraint in public policy deliberations in the current coronavirus crisis. Without committing one way or...
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