This country’s education system has failed for decades to provide young New Zealanders with any context of the world’s only superpower and its people. There was virtually no mention of America during my own schooling; the only foreign country we studied was the global nonentity Fiji.
More evidence of child COVID lockdown harm
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on more evidence of ongoing harm to children as a result of Australia’s harsh lockdown policies. We’ve seen the same disastrous impact on the lives of a generation of youngsters in US states that closed schools the longest, as well as countries like New Zealand that had repeated lockdowns. It’s […]
UK spike in non-COVID deaths a sign of things to come in other countries that locked down hard?
A startling article out of the UK reports that, entirely unrelated to COVID, England and Wales are experiencing 1,000 excess deaths a week is cause for alarm in countries that also enforced strict lock-downs. Concerns were raised as early as mid-2020 that locking down would result in precisely what appears to be happening. The piece, […]
The perils of COVID-zero—how policymakers should manage endemic COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved and we’ve learned more about the virus, the way we manage it should have evolved as well. From a policymaking perspective, step one is acknowledging that it’s one of many risks we face in life; we need to weigh up all of life’s risks as we decide how to tackle […]
Coronavirus contemplations II
Some further contemplations of mine regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How has the US performed during the pandemic? When I first shared a series of contemplations in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, I noted David Harsanyi’s prediction that the United States would be the best place to ride it out. This was […]