Josh Stevenson, Author at Brownstone Institute

What the Media Gets Wrong about Hospitals

Josh Stevenson December 8, 2022 December 8, 2022 History, Media, Public Health 7 minute read

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The common thread among all of this coverage is that they all focus on the system, rather than the human. There’s this concept called “capacity” that we all somehow need to know about, and we all need to make decisions because of it. The entire concept is backwards. It’s a fundamentally utilitarian mindset that stems from a fundamental misrepresentation of how systems work, and an inverted moral philosophy that prioritizes systems over people. Hospitals were built for humankind, not humankind for the hospital.

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Already in 2020, There Were Signs of Increased Non-Covid Mortality

Josh Stevenson June 9, 2022 June 9, 2022 Policy 2 minute read

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Second-order effects on mortality were not measured in real time like SARS-COV2 cases. Why? What we measure matters. What we don’t measure might actually just matter even more. Months and years later we are still accounting for how the Covid-19 response disrupted life and cost lives in many other ways we simply chose to ignore.

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The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States

Josh Stevenson June 3, 2022 June 4, 2022 Policy, Public Health 9 minute read

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The entire proposition is just silly. The concept of innate differences in populations is a well established consideration for those who study population health. One might think that our nations most prestigious newspaper might require their top writer to consult with population health experts or even an actuarial scientist in order to obtain a more informed perspective and give the data more rigorous analysis.

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The Monkeypox Outbreak of 2003

Josh Stevenson May 25, 2022 May 30, 2022 History 3 minute read

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Is this how every rare and exotic new pathogenic threat is going to be treated, now that we’ve got everyone’s attention for 2 years of social/political/economic upheaval?

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Math Proficiency Rates Show Impact of Prolonged School Closures

Josh Stevenson April 23, 2022 April 23, 2022 Education 4 minute read

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At some point, the people who did this have to face the music and come to grips with what Covid maximalist school policies have wrought. In this case: outright failure.

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The Mask Studies You Should Know

Josh Stevenson April 21, 2022 April 21, 2022 Masks 11 minute read

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As we finally move past this massive psychological experiment, we should address the secondary effects that masks have had on our society, especially our children, and one day actually insist that our government and public health leaders commit to risk/benefit analysis instead of blindly following the urge to “do something.”

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Contra CDC, School Masking Did Not Keep Kids In School

Emily Burns,

Josh Stevenson April 20, 2022 April 21, 2022 Education 7 minute read

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One of the reasons we were told masks were essential for school kids this year was that masks would reduce the likelihood of school closures, by reducing disease incidence. Unfortunately, like so much the CDC has promised, the opposite turns out to be true.

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