Professor Philipp Bagus on the „Political Economy“ of Covid Hysteria | Jeff Deist

Professor Philipp Bagus has published a remarkable article making the case for developing a political economy to help us understand the 2020 coronavirus and similar events prone to mass hysteria. The article, titled „COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria,“Philipp Bagus, José Antonio Peña-Ramos, and Antonio Sánchez-Bayón, „COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria,“ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no.

How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic

Famed Johns Hopkins doctor Marty Makary recently wondered why „amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks.“ He points out that „If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill.“