Common Sense Soapbox
About this show
Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.
California Tanked Its Economy for NOTHING??
May 17, 2022
On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Bubble Man asserts the superiority of California’s (and other states’) lockdown approach to the pandemic. Is he right that states with looser restrictions were an “experiment in human sacrifice”? As Seamus contests, not exactly.
CREDITS:
Written by Sean W. Malone & Seamus Coughlin
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
LINKS:
Experiments in Human Sacrifice:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georgia-reopening-coronavirus-pandemic/610882/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/
https://saw.americananthro.org/pub/human-sacrifices-not-heroes-us-essential-workers/release/1
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/americas-chilling-experiment-in-human-sacrifice
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-unique-threat-south-young-people/609241/
Lockdown Efficacy:
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/?fbclid=IwAR0MybXfTTNJAqnXoK-VREYaVZ11v7LdM6Br8bjmyfyWP68QccEogJ0heNw
https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1572
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3764553
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2020.1844786
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
Different State Responses:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-coronavirus-isnt-just-a-blue-state-problem/
https://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/urban-density-not-enemy-coronavirus-fight-evidence-china
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-22/states-without-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order
https://fee.org/articles/blue-states-have-been-hit-much-harder-by-covid-19-why/
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/22/covid-19-is-hitting-democratic-states-harder-than-republican-ones
https://fee.org/articles/texas-has-fewer-covid-cases-than-michigan-despite-nearly-20m-more-people-and-no-restrictions/
Reliable Data:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
