Mark Avis

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12/17/2021 Power & Market Mark Avis

How dangerous is Covid? Two recent articles (see here and here) on mises.org suggest that what we are witnessing is hysteria. Both articles examined age-standardized mortality statistics for the US...

The UK’s National “Crisis”: Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2008 Levels

10/13/2021 Mises Wire Mark Avis

All over the world, populations have been locked up, have become fearful, and none of it can be justified. Looking at the UK, the overall death rate for 2020 is not unprecedented, and some of the...

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The UK’s National “Crisis”: Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2008 Levels

10/19/2021 Mark Avis

Age-adjusted mortality in the UK rose in 2020 to the same level last experienced in 2008. Yet the government declared no national health crisis in those years.

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