Covid

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The Wall Street Journal had this headline report of how middle-age men are bearing the brunt of COVID. Second, there's a columnist for The Washington Post who wrote that 16,000-something children have been hospitalized with COVID in the past 12 months or some time period. This is just a false, it's a lie.

Economist Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks about the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Boudreaux argues that a perfect storm of factors created a huge overreaction, including unnecessary lockdowns that accomplished little at a very high cost in physical and emotional health. Instead, Boudreaux argues, we should have focused attention on the population most at risk of dying from COVID--the elderly and especially the elderly with co-morbidities. The conversation includes a discussion of externalities and the insights of Ronald Coase applied to the policies during the pandemic.