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I think “any after-action review will focus” on the lateness of New York’s adoption of social distancing rules is an overstatement. I’m pretty sure that some won’t: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/491737-former-c…

What does Anthony Fauci know? https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492411-fauci-us-could-have-saved-lives-if-social-distancing-restrictions LikeLike

This is an interesting and in many respects useful and correct analysis of the role of capitalist markets in resolving the problems that arose (or have arisen) during the COVID-19 crisis. But it also strikes me as cherry-picking the evidence in problem…

This sort of story is becoming par for the course: https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/another-nj-nurse-is-fired-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak-in-dispute-over-protective-gear.html As I put things in a Facebook discussion with a libertarian journal…

More from the surge as it happened in New York: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/coronavirus-nyc-hospital-icu.html LikeLike

I’m inclined to think that New Jersey will avoid this problem. Those of us who’ve worked in New York have long complained about its bureaucratic culture, but the complaints seldom get through to people in love with the idea that regulations…

The relevance of this story to Phil Magness’s “advice” should be obvious, but I’ll have to make it explicit at some point. This is what happened to the people who took Phil’s advice, which, despite concealing, he has yet t…

What the surge looked like in New York: LikeLike