Lockdown
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Lockdowns: What’s Performed Better? Government – Or Internet?
by Seton Motley November 23, 2020Democrats are doing to the China Virus – what they did to the Great Depression
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ConstitutionEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPolitics
Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons
by Richard Ebeling November 4, 2020A number of European governments are reinstituting degrees of new social and economic lockdowns in the name of slowing down a new wave of Coronavirus cases
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Health Care
Are Lockdowns Necessary? What Data From 10 Countries Show
by Kevin Dayaratna July 31, 2020A new Heritage Foundation special report analyzes the COVID-19 responses of 10 countries, with varying levels of economic freedom, to better understand which policies might have been more effective than others.
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Our elected executives face a bias to action, worsened by the 24-hour news cycle and running tallies of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to a variety of them.
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Looking for accurate statistics on COVID-19? Check this article out from Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold!
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Whether school closings and stay-at-home orders slow an outbreak is an important and really challenging research question. This question must be answered before we compare economic costs and health benefits.
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FeaturedGovernmentHealth CareLiberty
Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns
by Kevin Dayaratna May 19, 2020Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from his government advisory role after breaking the very same British lockdown rules that he had a role in influencing.
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The life values traded off in stay at home orders are fundamental to us as persons – how we face fear versus protecting our families. Freedom exists precisely so people not sharing the same values do not have to impose their choices on each other.
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EconomicsHealth Care
If You’re Quiet, You Can Hear the Goal Posts Moving
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold April 14, 2020The economy continues to stall as coronavirus sweeps across the nation. When should Trump begin to reopen the nation?