From April 1, 2020 Who Are the Lunatics of the Conservative Think Tanks Running Trump Covid19 Policy?


So, if you were wondering where Trump's stupid and destructive proposal to "Reopen the Economy" last week came from, and the lying fabrication Trump uttered about how COVID19 was just a Flu, and overhyped, leads back to the Right Wing Pundit Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institute, and his Allies at the Federalist Society, which includes Barr and others in Trump's orbit.
We covered him in 2006 through EIR Magazine, (our former association) and know all about this guy. Epstein believes the Coronavirus has been hyped by the WHO and Democrats as a pretext to bring back "Big Government." He said 3 weeks ago COVID19 would only kill 500 people, and revised it up to 5,000 last week, and also formulated what came out of Trump's mouth when he said, "we can't let the cure be worse than the disease". He's a University Of Chicago based Lawyer, with no background in Medicine or Public Health. 
Here's an excerpt of what we said in 2006 in an article by a former collaborator, Jeff Steinberg.
<<Many civil rights activists see it quite differently. They characterize the Federalist Society as a network committed to the revival of the "Confederate doctrine of law," aimed at overturning all of the civil rights advances since Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Indeed, one leading Federalist Society member, University of Chicago Law School professor Richard Epstein, heads a movement called the "Constitution in Exile," which claims that FDR ripped up the Federal Constitution with his New Deal programs of Social Security and other social-safety-net guarantees—this, despite the fact that the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution's Preamble explicitly mandates that the Federal government "promote the general welfare" of current and future generations.
Lino A. Graglia, a Federalist Society member and University of Texas law professor, whose Reagan-era nomination to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was pulled when he admitted that he had referred to African Americans as "pickaninnies," openly asserts, to this day, that blacks and Latinos are inherently inferior to whites. "Blacks and Mexican Americans are not academically competitive with Whites in selective institutions," he was quoted in a 1999 profile of the Federalist Society, "Hijacking Justice." "It is," he elaborated, "primarily of cultural effects. Failure is not looked upon with disgrace." About the Federalist Society, Gaglia acknowledged, "They certainly are unenthusiastic about civil rights laws. Richard Epstein thinks we will be better off if civil rights laws were all repealed. These people do believe, as I believe, that so-called civil rights have gone too far and are not civil rights at all.".......>>


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The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
Richard Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law, discusses two articles he wrote, on the Hoover Institution Web site, entitled “Coronavirus Perspective” and “Coronavirus Overreaction,” and his views of the pandemic.

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