Lockdown cost-benefit analysis for Australia by Martin Lally
Martin Lally is a kiwi economist who late in 2020 decided to calculate for himself what his own country was losing by locking itself away...
Australia or Sweden: which has had the better 2020?
Compared to the trends on January 2020, has Australia or Sweden lost more wellbeing in 2020? And which has seen the greater damage to expected...
On the nature of gods and inequality.
Sometimes one has an idea that blazes into one's consciousness as a solution to one particular concern, which then starts to be something much bigger...
What experiments on cult behaviour tell us about lockdown beliefs
With a recent publication in Nature that reported lockdowns have no effect on covid-cases or covid-deaths, there are now over 30 studies that fail to...
Interesting new articles on mass hysteria and medical morality
While the hysteria marches on here in Europe, an interesting economics article came out in a decent journal on the political economy of that mass...
Covid-congestion effects: why are lockdowns so deadly?
Consider the picture below of two hypothetical Accident and Emergency departments (A&E), one that has no covid-regulations and simply has the available nurses trying to...
Are the covid lights going on in the States?
An important rule in politics is that you adopt the best policies and slogans of your opponent only after you have destroyed that opponent. Till...