Friday 3 April 2020

If you want to see what a Green New Deal would look like, look around ...


Alex Epstein appeared on America's 'National Report' to argue 'If you want to see what a Green New Deal would look like, just look around ... "



And in the first segment of this week’s Power Hour podcast, he discusses six "filters" he uses to screen out most commentary and claims about COVID-19, to find just the best expert analyses:

The six filters are: 
  1. Do they assume freedom of action means recklessness?
  2. Do they assume lockdown means optimal virus prevention?
  3. Do they advocate universal measures for the highly vulnerable and low-vulnerability alike?
  4. Do they equate diagnosed infections with actual infections? (This is a tactic used to hyper-inflate death rates.)
  5. Do they devalue freedom and quality of life?
  6. Do they treat the goal as eradication instead of management? 
Unfortunately [says Alex], I believe that the policies and studies being used by governments at all levels are committing most of the above mistakes.
    One of the most promising experts I’ve found on this issue is Dr. David Katz of Yale.     While he and I diverge on broad political philosophy I’ve found him to be very precise in his analysis of the real risks of COVID-19 to different demographics—and very wise in his advocacy of selective universal isolation practices and policies vs. the universal isolation practices and policies advocated by political leaders of both parties.
 
Here is Dr. Katz’s page on COVID-19 and here is one of my favourite articles by him.
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