The Good News: Covid-19 seems to be more widespread, but less lethal than earlier indicated. The Bad News: The good news is lost amid media stridency. “Instead,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “the public gets 20-second distortions in the evening news that Trump wants us to drink Lysol.” In two paragraphs reporting on the president’s remarks, the New […]
The Authoritarian Hypocrisy of Never-Trump Republicans and Biden-Democrats
Daniel McCarthy writes in Spectator USA: COVID-19, the Wuhan virus, is an epidemiological scourge — but it’s also a clarifying catalyst for American politics. The virus’s relevance for globalization has been widely noted: this disease of Chinese origin has exposed how incapable the de-industrialized West has become of providing its own masks, drugs, and ventilators. […]
Let the Lockdown End, County by County
Pandemic Report No. 5 Grassroots protests are multiplying against the draconian stay-at-home orders, and every day brings new announcements of states ending parts of their lockdowns. The challenge is to do it intelligently to avoid a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Geographically, the way to do that is to end the lockdowns on a […]
Cure is Worse than Disease as Government Loses It’s Way Back Home
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXXV You feel it in your gut: The cure is worse than the disease. The numbers don’t support a stay-at-home, out-of-work policy for an entire country, never mind most of the world. Turns out Sweden was right from the beginning as was President Trump, who explained that America is not […]
Swedes Remain Strongly in Favor of Country’s Approach to Pandemic
Fredrik Erixon reports in Spectator USA: Two weeks ago, I wrote about ‘The Swedish experiment’ in The Spectator. As the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach to tackling coronavirus: cities, schools and restaurants have remained open. This was judged by critics to be utterly foolish: it would allow the virus to spread much faster than […]
China’s Bigger Problem – Its Damaged Brand
America, if not the world, is angry. China has been lethally dishonest over the coronavirus outbreak. It may be a long time before the world can be confident of the “safety and reliability of Chinese exports,” writes Victor Davis Hanson in NRO. China’s overseas brand is tarnished. Importers can never again be sure of the […]
The Canary in the Coronavirus Mine Shaft
As six states prepare to end Shelter in Place and face Coronavirus head-on, the other 46 states will be watching to see if the canary lives or dies. For Americans, it has been a crash course in the “uncertain nature and limitations of scientific knowledge,” suggests Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. America Tired of Disputes […]
Taki: National Barriers Might Make a Comeback
Taki Theodorocopulous writes in Taki Mag (abridged): The reports coming out of Greece nowadays are always about the migrant crisis, one caused by the neocons in Washington and the “slam dunk” victory of that half-wit George W. Bush, aided and abetted by honest Tony Blair. Now fake news of violent local reactions to the migrant […]
This Keeps You in the Game in Times Like These
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXXIV Your takeaway from my chart below, where stocks did nothing for a generation is, dividends—as in d-i-v-i-d-e-n-d-s. In the chart below, they’re not included. It’s a simple price chart. Remember, if you’re receiving dividends—like rent on an income property—you’re being paid to be in the market. Price isn’t much […]
Trump Asks Harvard to Return Coronavirus Money
Harvard has a $41 billion endowment. Yes, that’s a B. Harvard, along with Princeton and Stanford, has decided to do the right thing and turn down taxpayer-funded coronavirus relief paid for with the CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. Harvard spokesman Jason Newton in a statement Wednesday: We have previously said that Harvard, like other […]
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