Some headlines that caught our eye.
The Virus
A Year Ago, I Broke Down the COVID-19 Numbers: I Was Right and Here Are the Receipts — RedState
New York launches nation’s first ‘vaccine passports’ — USA Today
DeSantis: I’ll Take Executive Action To Ban ‘Vaccine Passports’ — HotAir
Accelerating Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines Makes Domestic ‘Immunity Passports’ Largely Irrelevant — Ronald Bailey, Reason
UK Supreme Court Judge Expects People Will Be Forced To Wear Masks, Stay Home For 10 Years — ZeroHedge
Lockdowns Are More Economically Devastating Than Voluntary Social Distancing — Mises Wire
Nursing Home Requests for COVID Tests Ignored While Cuomo’s Kin Got Them — Newsmax
Energy
No Silver Bullet on the Energy Issue — Ronald Stein, Daily Clout
Time to boycott Slave-made Solar Panels? — JoNova
China generated over half world’s coal-fired power in 2020 — Reuters/New York Post
Misc
Conservatives Have Health Care Ideas, Too — Sally Pipes, Forbes
Taxation with Representation: A fair and reasonable alternative to D.C. statehood — John Steele Gordon, City Journal
Classical Music Under Assault In Academia — Power Line
Markets Are Far More Subtle and Efficient Than Most Intellectuals Realize — Cafe Hayek
Public Schools Can’t Control Students’ Private Speech — Cato Institute
Monday Mirthiness: Latest idiocy from the ‘extinction rebellion’ — Watts Up With That
Bizarre tweet From U.S. Strategic Command spawns panic about nuclear codes — Just the News
Using these vague “policy violations,” Google is now threatening to demonetize us. It’s part of Big Tech’s effort to silence conservative voices.