Day: March 22, 2020

Would you consider the shutting down of an entire national economy for a disease such as the Black Death, which between 1347-1351 killed an estimated 60 percent of the population in the areas where it spread, to be a proportionate response? What about for a virus which carries — at the very most (see below) — a mortality rate of 1.4 percent for those who contract it? … Read More >An Analysis of the Covid-19 Response: Weighing up the Threat From the Virus, and the Threat From the Reaction