{"id":189639,"date":"2021-02-26T02:28:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lockdowns-dont-work-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:28:17","slug":"lockdowns-dont-work-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lockdowns-dont-work-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lockdowns don’t work and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Lockdowns don’t work and other commentary<\/strong>”
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Libertarian: Lockdowns Don\u2019t Work<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the stark difference in policy,\u201d America and Britain \u201csaw remarkably similar COVID-19 trends this winter,\u201d Reason\u2019s Jacob Sullum points out<\/a>. Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s lockdown \u201cclosed most businesses\u201d and required everyone without a \u201creasonable excuse\u201d to stay home. Britain\u2019s \u201cseven-day average of new cases peaked\u201d Jan. 9, while America\u2019s peaked Jan. 11; cases then \u201cfell sharply in both countries.\u201d The same story of \u201cstarkly different policies and similar outcomes\u201d app<\/a>ears in California, where Gov. Gavin News<\/a>om imposed a lockdown, and Texas, which \u201cremained largely open.\u201d The two states have had \u201calmost the same drop\u201d in cases: 85 percent and 81 percent. And California\u2019s infection rate trip<\/a>led in December and January while Texas\u2019 doubled. Lockdowns, with their \u201ceconomic and social<\/a> costs,\u201d simply weren\u2019t \u201cnecessary to bring case numbers back down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ex-hostage: What I Learned in an Iranian Prison<\/strong><\/p>\n

At The Wall Street Journal, Wang Xiyue recalls<\/a> his shock at being \u00adarrested in Iran in 2016 \u201con false espionage charges,\u201d even though the \u00adnuclear deal had been implemented and it seemed to be \u201ca period of rapprochement between the US and Iran.\u201d He had thought doing research there would be safe, since his professors stressed that Tehran\u2019s hostility was exaggerated, stemming largely from the bad behavior toward it by the West, \u201cparticularly\u201d America. Yet his 40-month captivity gave him an \u201cintense re-education\u201d: The regime\u2019s hostility \u201cisn\u2019t reactive, but proactive\u201d; the \u201cmenace of Iran can\u2019t be appeased\u201d but \u201cmust be countered and restrained.\u201d And \u201conly by showing strength of will can President Biden hope for genuine progress in containing the Iranian threat to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iconoclast: America\u2019s Real Divide<\/strong><\/p>\n

America is supposedly divided along race and gender lines \u2014 yet, \u00adobserves Joel Kotkin at The American Mind<\/a>, the conflict might really be between those who primarily make a living manipulating \u201cincorporeal\u201d information and those who toil in the \u201ctangible world of making, growing and using real things.\u201d President Biden\u2019s campaign was propelled by the incorporeal class \u2014 and so far, he has mainly delivered for its members, with anti-industrial climate plans and sops to the woke. Yet \u201cit\u2019s unlikely\u201d that the heartland\u2019s oil riggers, welders, haulers and machine-tool operators will be \u201ctoo thrilled\u201d by Team Biden\u2019s promise of \u201cgreen jobs.\u201d Worse, Biden\u2019s folks \u201cmust address the fact that the key Democratic base \u2014 the big coastal core urban areas \u2014 has been fundamentally undermined by the pandemic, last summer\u2019s disorders and a steady rise in crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative: Fauci\u2019s No Shaman<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Biden\u2019s chief pandemic adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, \u201cis a bureaucrat,\u201d National Review\u2019s David Harsanyi \u00addeclares<\/a>, \u201cnot our parent, or our personal physician, or a shaman, or our life coach.\u201d Yet Democrats and media elites treat him as all that and more \u2014 including by unquestioningly accepting his calls for harsh lockdowns and a \u201cunified approach\u201d to the pandemic. Yet \u201cthe Fauci approach\u201d is basically \u201can Andrew Cuomo approach\u201d: \u201ccentralized,\u201d devastating to the economy and to individual rights \u2014 and far from effective. And don\u2019t forget Fauci\u2019s early \u00adanti-mask guidance and \u201cpraise for the Chicoms\u2019 lackeys at the World Health Organization.\u201d Bottom line: \u201cThe press should never have canonized Fauci.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defense beat: China\u2019s Hidden Weakness<\/strong><\/p>\n

At The Hill, Susan Yoshihara flags<\/a> an overlooked but huge problem for Beijing\u2019s ambitions: Thanks to decades of state-ordered population control under the harsh one-child mandate, \u201cChina\u2019s downward human spiral is \u00adaccelerating.\u201d That\u2019s \u201con top of nearly a decade of contraction in working-age Chinese citizens.\u201d As a result, \u201cChina\u2019s main state pension fund and \u00adurban-worker pension fund are projected to run out of money by 2035.\u201d In the short term, the population drop helps explain Beijing\u2019s aggression from Tibet to Taiwan and the South China Sea, as well as its genocide of the \u00adUighur minority: It sees \u201cclosing windows of opportunity to resolve manpower-intensive security disputes before losing its robust working-age population.\u201d Longer term, America \u201cshould be thinking about exploiting China\u2019s strategic weaknesses.\u201d <\/p>\n

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“#Lockdowns don’t work and other commentary” Libertarian: Lockdowns Don\u2019t Work \u201cDespite the stark difference in policy,\u201d America and Britain \u201csaw remarkably similar COVID-19 trends this winter,\u201d Reason\u2019s Jacob Sullum points out. Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s lockdown \u201cclosed most businesses\u201d and required everyone without a \u201creasonable excuse\u201d to stay home. Britain\u2019s \u201cseven-day average of new cases…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/210116-uk-travel-restrictions2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[95117,30245,4973,1545,43,70616,70984,991,67243],"class_list":["post-189639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-25-21","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-editorial","tag-fast-takes","tag-iran","tag-joe-biden","tag-lockdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}