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Health Funding: A Lesson for the Next Pandemic

Sven R. Larson December 6, 2022

Health care systems with a high degree of government funding were ill-prepared for the pandemic; systems with a higher degree of private and semi-private funding had a much better capacity to respond.

No Amnesty! An Open Letter to a Totalitarian Apologist

Sven R. Larson November 6, 2022

I will tell you right away, professor Oster: there will be no amnesty. Not a chance. And here is why.

Austrians Wishing to Leave EU Doubles Amid Pandemic and Russo-Ukraine War

Robert Semonsen November 3, 2022

Nearly 3 in 10 Austrians favor leaving the European Union, more than double the number who favored leaving the bloc prior to the pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine War.

COVID-19: Mea Culpa, From the Former French Health Minister

Hélène de Lauzun September 14, 2022

In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, French authorities communicated extensively about the ineffectiveness of the mask. The government went so far as to suppress its distribution, sale, and use in the public arena.

Spanish Court Condemns Local Closure of Churches During the Pandemic

Bridget Ryder June 29, 2022

Under two ordinances, the sites of different religious confessions were forced to remain closed precisely during the times that worshipers normally gathered—mosques on Fridays, synagogues on Saturdays, and churches on Sundays, in all three cases from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Pandemic Accelerated Fall in European Marriage Rates

Carlos Perona Calvete June 4, 2022

In 2020, the pandemic caused a sharp decline of marriage rates of European countries, especially western, majority-Catholic ones.

WHO Seeks New Far-Reaching Powers at World Health Assembly

Robert Semonsen May 26, 2022

The WHO is seeking to amend the International Health Regulations and impose a global pandemic treaty, both of which would grant the global health body new far-reaching powers that would allow it intervene in the affairs of nation-states in the event of a future pandemic.

Pandemic Economics: Spain the Only EU Country Still Limping from COVID

Bridget Ryder April 24, 2022

The Spanish will be, along with the Japanese, the only citizens of a large, developed economy who will end 2022 poorer than in 2019. Although Spain’s economic growth rate for 2022 is higher than both the global and Eurozone average, growing more than anyone is not enough, after having fallen further than everyone else.

German Ethics Council Criticises Crisis Management During the Pandemic

David Boos April 13, 2022

The German Ethics Council released a statement criticising politics and media for their crisis management during the pandemic, calling for measures to be “democratically legitimised,” while conveniently forgetting how the Ethics Council helped shape those very measures they now criticise.

The Cure Was Worse Than the Disease

Roger Watson April 11, 2022

The essential thesis of the book is, regardless of the efficacy of pandemic management measures, that there was never an assessment of what the likely damage was going to be. The equation between benefit and damage was unbalanced; in fact, the damage side was left blank.

Tag: pandemic

Health Funding: A Lesson for the Next Pandemic

No Amnesty! An Open Letter to a Totalitarian Apologist

Austrians Wishing to Leave EU Doubles Amid Pandemic and Russo-Ukraine War

COVID-19: Mea Culpa, From the Former French Health Minister

Spanish Court Condemns Local Closure of Churches During the Pandemic

Pandemic Accelerated Fall in European Marriage Rates

WHO Seeks New Far-Reaching Powers at World Health Assembly

Pandemic Economics: Spain the Only EU Country Still Limping from COVID

German Ethics Council Criticises Crisis Management During the Pandemic

The Cure Was Worse Than the Disease

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