Post Tagged 'Anthony Fauci'

November 19, 2025

COVID and the Craving for Certainty

In March of 2020, I published an essay warning both the public and our policymakers against overreacting to the COVID threat. We overreact, I argued, in times of “epistemic uncertainty,” when we do not know enough about a threat we face and are unclear about our best response. Continue Reading...

November 29, 2021

The forgotten victims of COVID-19: 7 groups punished by lockdowns

COVID-19 is the most deadly global pandemic since the 1918 influenza outbreak, claiming more than 5 million lives worldwide and counting. Well over 700,000 of these deaths occurred in the United States, which is comparable to the number of lives lost in the American Civil War. Continue Reading...

July 03, 2020

Rand Paul on the fatal conceits of COVID-19 central planning

When the first wave of COVID-19 hit the United States, Americans were generally sympathetic to the various lockdowns. Yes, we were likely to endure significant economic pain, but given how little we knew about the virus and how great the risks could be, we were willing to accept the cost. Continue Reading...