Climate Realism

Lomberg: The Paris Accord

That’s  right, if everyone meets their goals, and right now the US is the only nation on track, the reduction in projected temperature in 2100 would be under 0.05F. Note that Lomberg is NOT a skeptic. He accepts the UN projections, he just follows through to the consequences

That’s what we’re going to throw away our standard of living for generations to do.

Would the Free Market have rolled out the vaccine better?

Cato: Treat vaccine as the valuable commodity it is

Would the market have rolled out the vaccine perfectly? Probably not, but it only needs to have done  better than the clusterfart we have now.

Keep in mind that in selling the doses first to the highest bidder, the bidder would not be you, it would be your insurer. So, who would get the first doses? Those most likely to run up a huge ICU bill and then die so their premiums stop.  Young insureds are likely to only need a few prescriptions for dexamethasone and antibiotics, and maybe an anticoagulant, so their vaccine could be delayed until the supply is available at a lower cost as demand drops.

Perfect? No, but really…

Free to Choose Medicine

Heartland

Simple, voluntary, compassionate, and potentially life saving, everything the FDA fears.

Free to Choose Medicine would allow patients, in consultation with their doctors, to try known safe treatments not approved by the FDA when there are no alternatives, or the approved alternatives have been exhausted. In return, the treatment and results would be placed anonymously in a database so the experience with the treatment could be shared and evaluated by drug makers and other doctors contemplating their use.

This would be not unlike Phase 3 efficacy testing on a volunteer basis, and could be done in parallel with conventional Phase 3 testing.

Under this system, we would have known for certain by June in HCQ was a help pr not, and under what treatment regimens. We could have started vaccinating those willing to take the chance in October, and be near done by now as we would have been testing  with hundreds instead of tens of thousands.

It’s such a good idea the bureaucracy will never let it happen.