Balaji Srinivasan: The Coronavirus Might Eat the World
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
If you try homeschooling, you may discover that it's not just a good way to keep COVID-19 at bay, but a good educational approach and fit for your family more generally.
Americans and those traveling from the U.K. will be exempted.
Initial hopes that the public health consequences of the new coronavirus would be mild are fading.
It hampers transparency and means that relevant health officials who lack clearance can't participate.
The extent of state and federal quarantine powers is surprisingly unsettled.
Actually, it's a bailout.
FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.
Your coronavirus prepping would be a lot tougher in a world without free markets. Libertarians might be the only ones who recognize that.
More than $725 million has been spent across the world from non-governmental organizations.
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Looking at better and worse projections.
The Reason Roundtable podcast debates the severity of the both the outbreak and the potential governmental responses.
Not every situation requires an expert's guidance.
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Attempts to impose low prices on emergency supplies often do far more harm than good.
If it works at all (and it usually doesn't), a fiscal stimulus is meant to boost demand. The biggest potential economic problem from coronavirus has to do with supply.
It's too early to tell, but there are reasons for (relative) optimism.
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One of the overlooked benefits of single-use items is that they're clean.
COVID-19 is the healthiest thing to happen to government power in a very long time.
Reason's science correspondent explains who is getting infected, how to protect yourself, and why nobody should be freaking out. Yet.
The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.
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Unraveling panic, policy, and bad metaphors on the Reason Roundtable podcast
While the use of force can be justified to curtail the spread of communicable diseases, the threat has to be weighed against the burdens on potential carriers.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
Irresponsible, ineffective, and dishonest
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
They call it a "hate crime against Asian students and scholars."
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People are panicking and sketchy information is spreading fast, but rapid vaccine and anti-viral deployment should blunt the epidemic's health and economic effects in the coming year.
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Efforts to control the flow of information fail, but they muddle the quality of what people share in defiance of the censors.
We will soon learn if humanity's increasing biotechnical prowess can prevent a modern pandemic.