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  1. The Right Coast

    Deborah Birx s Guide to Destroying America – Tablet Magazine

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The lockdowns that Xi pioneered and Birx so zealously advocated for reportedly led to over 170,000 non-COVID excess deaths among young Americans while failing to meaningfully slow the spread of COVID anywhere they…

  2. The Right Coast

    The Damage of Covid Lockdowns | City Journal

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The results: locked-down economies did not have better health outcomes, open schools were slightly negatively correlated with health outcomes, and the lockdown of schools and economies were highly correlated.Since the…

  3. Dashboard Insights

    China Lockdowns Take Bite out of Global Vehicle Sales

    By Lauren M. Loew

    Today, Shanghai is slated to come out of a strict two-month COVID lockdown. China’s largest city, Shanghai is home to about 25 million people. The end of lockdown will permit…

  4. Health Law Prof Blog

    Emerging From the Lockdown: Insights from Women Domestic Workers’ Lives in Delhi

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Monika Banerjee (Institute of Social Studies Trust), Emerging From the Lockdown: Insights from Women Domestic Workers' Lives in Delhi, SSRN (2021):Using a mixed-methods approach of telephone survey and in-depth interviews…

  5. The Right Coast

    Something Is Rotten In The State Of Shanghai’s Latest COVID Lockdowns | ZeroHedge

    By Thomas A. Smith

    If I had to bet it all today on why China is locking down the way that it is, I would take one of these three scenarios over actual implementation of…

  6. The Right Coast

    Land of Endless Lockdown – WSJ

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Two years after prescribing Covid lockdowns, U.S. government disease doctor Anthony Fauci now acknowledges he may never be able to justify the massive societal costs of his radical therapy. But…

  7. The Right Coast

    China Brief: Shanghai enters full lockdown

    By Thomas A. Smith

    After weeks of partial closures, Shanghai now faces full lockdown in two parts. Each side of the city, which is divided by the Huangpu River, will undergo five days of…

  8. COVID 19: Answers to Business Challenges

    Pennsylvania Superior Court Holds that Doctrines of Frustration of Purpose and Impracticability/Impossibility of Performance are Inapplicable to Commercial Lease Default Arising Out of COVID-19 Closures

    By Tucker Arensberg

    Christopher W. Cahillane, ccahillane@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-5552 Andrew J. Salemme, asalemme@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-3952In the first Pennsylvania appellate case addressing the effects of government-ordered business closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic on…

  9. Health Law Prof Blog

    How Ghana Paid for Its Inequality Sins during COVID-19 Lockdowns

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Festival Godwin Boateng (Columbia University), Samuel Ametepey (Independent), Saviour Kusi (Independent), How Ghana Paid for Its Inequality Sins during COVID-19 Lockdowns, AREF Blog Sec. (2022):It turns out that when you…

  10. Health Law Prof Blog

    COVID-19 Lockdown Defiance, Public ‘Indiscipline’, and Criminalisation of Vulnerable Populations in Ghana

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Festival Godwin Boateng (Columbia University), Saviour Kusi (Independent), Samuel Ametepey (Independent), COVID-19 Lockdown Defiance, Public ‘Indiscipline’, and Criminalisation of Vulnerable Populations in Ghana, SSRN (2021):Behavioural economics has provided much source…