If Ebola mated with Measles the general public would make their own decisions on how to behave. Which undoubtedly would include avoiding people if possible. It is not for govts to decide how people should behave! Most people would have simply carried on as normal if their hadn't been scared witless by their own govts! Sadly, they will all do it again if encouraged to.
The root problem is the pandemic of civic impunity, whereby citizens think that their baseless opinions and speculations can rightly be used to govern their fellow citizens' behaviors. This is a far more wide-reaching problem than their crazy pandemic reactions. Until we have a proper rule of law I don't see how anything else can really be fixed.
This is exactly right - but you don't need to look to the science to know that lock downs were ALWAYS a mistake. If a deadly virus had been sweeping through the population, governments wouldn't have to tell people to stay home. Quite the opposite - they'd be desperately trying to get people to go to work before every supply chain in the world collapsed and millions starved to death.
Lock down mandates are wrong prima facie: if the threat is big enough they're not needed because people will naturally change their behaviour, and if the threat isn't big enough, there's no need for them in the first place.
That's absolutely correct, and I remember you picking it up very early on, by the way. Your interventions on this subject are among the most valuable. And I'm glad that Elon Musk himself echoed you on Twitter recently and gave you more visibility.
Let’s say we all agree on the above. No one will ever be allowed to admit it, because the house of cards for which their power sits is at stake.
Watching people with severe co-morbidities walk into this virus while donning their red hat proved to me that people aren’t interested in truth, they’re interested in identity far more than they wish to admit.
The government saw this as the greatest opportunity to line their constituents pockets…ever. Never let a good tragedy go to waste. The rampant spending led to rampant inflation, which has made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
People don’t want freedom, they want security and they’re willing to sacrifice liberty as long as mom and dad foot the bill.
If Ebola mated with Measles the general public would make their own decisions on how to behave. Which undoubtedly would include avoiding people if possible. It is not for govts to decide how people should behave! Most people would have simply carried on as normal if their hadn't been scared witless by their own govts! Sadly, they will all do it again if encouraged to.
The root problem is the pandemic of civic impunity, whereby citizens think that their baseless opinions and speculations can rightly be used to govern their fellow citizens' behaviors. This is a far more wide-reaching problem than their crazy pandemic reactions. Until we have a proper rule of law I don't see how anything else can really be fixed.
This is exactly right - but you don't need to look to the science to know that lock downs were ALWAYS a mistake. If a deadly virus had been sweeping through the population, governments wouldn't have to tell people to stay home. Quite the opposite - they'd be desperately trying to get people to go to work before every supply chain in the world collapsed and millions starved to death.
Lock down mandates are wrong prima facie: if the threat is big enough they're not needed because people will naturally change their behaviour, and if the threat isn't big enough, there's no need for them in the first place.
That's absolutely correct, and I remember you picking it up very early on, by the way. Your interventions on this subject are among the most valuable. And I'm glad that Elon Musk himself echoed you on Twitter recently and gave you more visibility.
Let’s say we all agree on the above. No one will ever be allowed to admit it, because the house of cards for which their power sits is at stake.
Watching people with severe co-morbidities walk into this virus while donning their red hat proved to me that people aren’t interested in truth, they’re interested in identity far more than they wish to admit.
The government saw this as the greatest opportunity to line their constituents pockets…ever. Never let a good tragedy go to waste. The rampant spending led to rampant inflation, which has made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
People don’t want freedom, they want security and they’re willing to sacrifice liberty as long as mom and dad foot the bill.