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 […]
Is Sweden’s Problem Coronavirus or Immigration?
Pandemic Report No. 4 Sweden is a capitalist Scandinavian welfare state. It is not a socialist state, as some conservatives mistakenly believe, but it is definitely not a nation where American social conservatives or fiscal conservatives would feel comfortable. For a domestic comparison, look at the U.S. state with the heaviest population of Scandinavian extraction: […]
An Economic Shutdown Based On…What?
Pandemic Report No. 3 What a difference a week makes! When I wrote my last report on April 6, the nation’s leaders were still basing their decisions on coronavirus computer “models” that were unchallenged. I sought to show that the foreign statistics that formed the basis for these models ranged from unreliable to useless, and […]
How Bad Has the Pandemic Been? How Bad Will It Be?
Pandemic Report No. 2 “U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Hits Highest Any Country Has Suffered in One Day”—Daily Beast, April 3 “Coronavirus May Kill 100,000 to 240,000 in U.S. Despite Actions, Officials Say”—The New York Times, March 31 Not so fast! Let’s all take a deep breath and see if it is possible to make sense […]
How Big of a Threat Is the Coronavirus?
How big of a threat is the coronavirus in the United States? The answer, of course, is that nobody knows. I certainly do not want to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic, especially in regard to the measures you should take to protect yourself. However, there is some reason to view the “end of the […]
