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My son (and my wife, but she's never handled something like this) is an attorney and I asked him. He backs up what you say. Just coming into a house under construction is not a crime unless the owner tells you to get out.

1. It's governments that universally enforce them too. I'm not seeing the point here. 2. No rights at all. And I wouldn't need them either; I'd do what I thought I needed to to survive and I wouldn't affect t anyone else's behavior or opportunities when I did so. This is why almost all...

Kim Lane - yes, she's a friend of mine - doesn't say that. Read it again. What she says is that distribution from the national stockpile was delayed and that the administration told the states they were on their own in getting new supplies until late March. This is not only correct, but she has...

Btw, want to see a series of reports about how other countries are handling the virus? Sure you do. Here you go: https://verfassungsblog.de/category/debates/covid-19-and-states-of-emergency-debates/ The Germans are nothing if not through. I haven't read all of these, but this strikes me as a...

Here's a useful (as usual) post from The Incidental Economist: https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/a-precision-public-health-approach-to-preventing-the-next-covid-19-surge-its-time-to-talk-about-surveillance/ This might very well work and it is within the scope of most public health...

And they were getting mighty high on the stalk when they did.

Look, those people were leading a war of national liberation. They had to say something to justify what they were doing and stealing from Locke came readily to hand. Besides, they were writing to convince a nation of believers. But notice what the actual structure of rights we ended up with...

Problem = this is a completely subjective definition of rights. You think you have inalienable rights that God gave you. Prove it. Just got harder, didn't it? Scripture isn't much help. Reason - no matter how defined - varies with individuals and with what particular cultures think is...

You know, you can avoid these kinds of criticisms by the simple act of citing your sources. If you do fact-check, good. Let us know where you found your data. I don't do that as often as I should myself, but I do try to do it when I'm making a claim that will strike others as far-fetched.

My bad. Actually, Kerala is 9th among the 33 Indian states in per capita income. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_union_territories_by_GDP_per_capita I suspect it's all that tourism. Some friends of ours went there not too long ago and had a great time. And spent...

Oh. Well, yes, they have greatly decentralized the planning process and put it in the hands of local organizations and the local governments. But they still have a state plan for the whole place that's negotiated with local stakeholders and paid for, in large part, by the state. This all works...

Since the government in Kerala is pretty much the same as you find in other Indian states, I'm guessing you are talking about the Indian national government. Nobody that calls themselves a conservative or a liberal should touch Modi and the BJP with a 10 foot pole. The guy is a borderline...

I posted the article. Did you think I didn't read it? I don't like some things the Keralans have done, but the tradeoffs make sense when you look at what's happening to the rest of India. It's not as if they're going to keep the restrictions in place forever, you know. And, yes, people in...

I agree with you on this. One reason we have had such a lousy response to the virus is that some Americans have exaggerated ideas about what individual freedom means. But … consider this: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/05/on-rioting-and-police-abolition Yeah. There are numerous...

If you want to learn something about Kerala instead of just spout off, go to the link I provided and read about it. The "tradeoffs" in Kerala are very different then they are here and they make it crystal clear why the CPI (M) has run the state more often then not since it was first elected in 1957.

Won't go into the first two. You evade the challenge in one and hand wave in the other. But … ok on #3. Though all the cases mentioned have used pretty much the same strategies and all of those strategies worked. Using some kind of central quarantine facility would be hard here, though by no...

1. Try again. This time tell us how you would handle the 91M Americans especially susceptible to the disease in an environment where 45 - 50% of the infected population is asymptomatic. (Hint: contact tracing and isolation works.) 2. No, you can't, unless everyone else in the shop is adhering...

I have a response to this, but I think the mods would take it down since it actually names names. So, I'll just say that: There haven't been any perceptible major changes in attitudes that Americans have toward major public issues in decades. The lit on this is massive and the conclusion is...

1. "We’re saying when 50% of the deaths are from 4% of the population not spread out but living in clearly defined facilities, we can do better." Oh? How? Let's see you game this strategy out. And let's see how your improvement would help with the rest of the facts given in my post. 2. I know...

All true. Now just who might be to blame for that? I wonder … I wonder …