Jon Guze, Author at The Locker Room

Jon Guze is the Director of Legal Studies at the John Locke Foundation.

Before joining the John Locke Foundation, Jon practiced law in Durham, North Carolina for over twenty years. He received a J.D., with honors, from Duke Law School in 1994 and an A.B. in history from Harvard College in 1972. In between, he studied architecture and, as a Vice President at HOK, Inc., he managed numerous large architectural and engineering projects across the US and in the UK.

Jon lives in Durham, NC with his wife of forty years. He has four children and three grandchildren.

Posts by Jon Guze (page 1)

“Study Finds Most Restaurants Fail Within First Year Of It Becoming Illegal To Go To Them”

Nice to see the Onion back on form.

Jon Guze, April 3, 2020
“Greek scientists confirm higher temperatures slow down coronavirus.”

The Greek City Times reports a finding that could be very good news if if holds up: A new Greek scientific study has confirmed that the coronavirus is affected by environments with higher temperatures. Leading the study is pulmonologist Prof. Konstantinos Gourgoulianis as coordinator and…

Jon Guze, April 1, 2020
“If we keep up our current strategy of suppression based on indiscriminate social distance for 12 to 18 months, most of us will still be alive. It is our economy that will be dead.”

That’s the conclusion of a recent NYT opinion piece by economist Paul Romer. In “Will Our Economy Die From Coronavirus?,” Romer recommends an alternative to our current strategy: To protect our way of life, we need to shift within a couple of months to a targeted approach…

Jon Guze, March 26, 2020
North Carolina Based Company Hanesbrands Steps Up

The Winston-Salem Journal reports: Hanesbrands Inc. will begin producing cotton surgical masks at some of its factories in Latin American as part of a federal contract to combat a national shortage of face masks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. At peak output, the company expects…

Jon Guze, March 22, 2020
Interesting Suggestion from Lyman Stone

“The only way America beats this is if curve-flattening becomes an interstate competition that replaces our lost sporting leagues.”…

Jon Guze, March 20, 2020
Some Good News Regarding COVID-19

A group of Chinese scientists have just published the resultus of a study in which they compared transmission rates for various Chinese cities. They find that, “High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19.” Here’s the Abstract: This paper investigates how air temperature and humidity…

Jon Guze, March 16, 2020
Who needs coronavirus tests when we have a 450 page communications manual?

In the fight against the coronavirus, the Washington Post thinks public trust is “the most powerful weapon officials possess,” and it is outraged that Trump is “eroding” public trust by failing to follow CDC guidelines about how to talk to the public.

Jon Guze, March 16, 2020
A Leftist Environmentalist Reveals His True Colors

Sky News editor Ed Conway writes: [I]f you were a young, hardline environmentalist looking for the ultimate weapon against climate change, you could hardly design anything better than coronavirus. Unlike most other such diseases, it kills mostly the old who, let’s face it, are more likely to be climate sceptics.

Jon Guze, March 13, 2020

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