Two more interesting articles on covid mass hysteria
Guess which crackpot started his article on covid in that notorious right-wing publication 'The Guardian' with the sentence "The virus has been used as a...
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...
Can you spot the countries with high vaccinations? Or recent lockdowns?
I am all for effective vaccines and have been impressed with how fast vaccines have been developed against covid, but I never expected them to...
Histories of the Great Panic.
How will Western historians in 2050 remember 2020? In scenario 1, "The Great Panic, a lost generation", I sketch my best guess. Scenario 2, "A...
How culture war is destroying public reason: COVID edition
Cross-posted from The Mandarin (and written about ten days ago, so it fails to mention Adelaide's latest snafu). Lockdowns, border closures, masks, apps and eradication....