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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Puzzles of the Pandemic: “The Nursing Home Massacre” by mlyoung57
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cuomo-reverses-nursing-home-directive-to-take-covid-19-patients-requires-more-staff-testing/2410533/ “Hospitals cannot release patients to nursing homes in New York unless the patient tests negative for the v…
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(Policy of Truth) Puzzles of the Pandemic: “The Nursing Home Massacre”
I’ve been pressed for time lately, as I do my share to add to the unemployment rate, but I couldn’t resist one thought in the form of a bleg, or query. For a month now, I’ve been seeing social media posts by people I respect (and many I don’t)–left, right, center, libertarian, and otherwise–criticizing Governors…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Farrell, Brennan, and the Great Debate Over Public Choice by sean samis
Good luck with your job search. sean s. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Suicide Solution by Irfan Khawaja
Some variation: Paramedic Company NameHackensack Meridian Health Company Location Edison, NJ, US Posted DatePosted 6 days ago Number of applicants Be among the first 25 applicants Share Show more options Save Save Paramedic at Hackensack Meridian Heal…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Farrell, Brennan, and the Great Debate Over Public Choice by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to sean samis. In retrospect, I think your explanation may be correct, and mine overly charitable. I was just on Facebook, on the page of a FB friend, Sanjay Kapoor. Kapoor had posted The New York Times’s front page today, which lists th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Farrell, Brennan, and the Great Debate Over Public Choice by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to sean samis. I haven’t read that particular paper yet, but I read the earlier BHL posts it was based on. They struck me (and still strike me) as almost willfully obtuse. There’s a good critique of them at the blog Angry Bear, by …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID-19 Narratives (7): Elegy for a Father by mlyoung57
Thank you, Daniella. Your pain touches mine. I’m honored to know your father, just a little bit, through your words… LikeLiked by 1 person
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Farrell, Brennan, and the Great Debate Over Public Choice by sean samis
I read Brennan’s paper; it really fails to demonstrate its point. Even now it’s become clear that an early response to the pandemic was essential; it saved lives. Demanding that a government wait for “better” data is unreasonable. Brennan’s unwil…
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(Policy of Truth) COVID-19 Narratives (7): Elegy for a Father
Elegy for My Father Daniella Mieles Opening up and discussing my experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic is very difficult, and not something I would ever have expected to do, but perhaps doing so will create more awareness about the dangers of this pandemic to those who still seem to regard it as a joke. People…
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