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Thoughts on the Current Crisis – Imprimis

April 16 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Big Govt, Coronavirus, Losing Freedom, The Left, US Constitution

This is rather long, but it may be one of the more important pieces I post. I just finished Hillsdale’s online course The US Constitution 101. In the course you learn how the USA has gotten from the founders to today and how the Constitution is thought about, to how our government functions today. The current COVID-19 “crisis”... Read more

We Are 100 Times Safer Now Than In Early March: Here is the Math

April 12 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus

Its only the statistical logic (not many if any subjective nuances), but it is interesting, and compelling. mrossol

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what are you in favor of?

April 10 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Economics, The Left, US Constitution

Another interesting perspective. WSj  4/10/2020  

I have no idea whether Sweden’s more modest approach to the Covid-19 pandemic— keeping schools and restaurants open while restricting visits to retirement homes—will be a success or a colossal and deadly mistake. No one else will know either, probably for months. But while we wait, the most interesting political fact about Sweden... Read more

Lockdowns won't stop it now

April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Coronavirus, Economics

We are where we are; we need to live with our decisions to-date. Dr Ladapo has perspective worth consideration.

WSJ  4/10/2020   By Joseph A. Ladapo The pandemic crisis now rests on a fulcrum. On one side is Covid-19 and every possible action that might prevent people from contracting and dying from infection. On the other side is everything... Read more

Testing Is Our Way Out – WSJ

April 3 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Creative

For now, social distancing is the best America can do to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. But if the U.S. truly mobilizes, it can soon deploy better weapons—advanced tests—that will allow the country to shift gradually to a protocol less disruptive and more effective than a lockdown. Instead of ricocheting between an unsustainable shutdown and a dangerous, uncertain return to normalcy, the... Read more

Lessons from what didn't happen

April 2 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Science

Hard to know what to include or comment on. There is a ton of learning going on in real time. mrossol WSJ 4/2/2020

By Benny Peiser And Andrew Montford London The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically demonstrated the limits of scientific modeling to predict the future. The most consequential coronavirus model, produced by a team at Imperial College London, tipped the... Read more

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