Matt O'Brien
ObsoleteDogma
With a population of 21 million, Florida announced 10,109 new covid cases today.With a combined population of 2.6 billion, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and
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Incredibly misguided attack on the Fed’s lender-of-last-resort function here.https://prospect.org/coronavirus/how-fed-bailed-out-the-investor-class-corporate-america/ Left-wing attacks on the Fed’s lender-of-last-resort function end up
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It’s important to once again emphasize that there’s no actual debate between economists and epidemiologists about when to reopen the economy. They agree that we shouldn’t try to until we
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This story about COVID-19 patients who seem like they're doing okay, but still have what, by normal standards, are distressingly low blood oxygen levels matched my own experience. https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overus
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Three days ago, National Review argued that we should copy Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to COVID-19 https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-response-sweden-avoids-isolation-economic-ruin/ https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1248322412
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Everything the Trump administration has promised—drive-thru testing centers in Walmart parking lots, a website to diagnose people, and now the hospital ship sent to NY—has turned out to be useless
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