What The Hell Is Going On Here!!!!

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 Cafe Hayek has a great post today regarding reactions to COVID!'

From the post at: https://cafehayek.com/2021/01/saying-goodbye-to-patron-mr-h.html

Dogma 1: The spread of an infectious pathogen once on the loose in a globalized world can be, and must be, successfully halted until the arrival of a vaccine. Such a halting, the dogmatists devoutly believe, will happen if we humans alter our behaviors with sufficient discipline and in unquestioning obedience to public-health experts.

Dogma 2: Protection from the pathogen du juor – today, SARS-CoV-2 – is life’s be-all and end-all. Every other goal is either to be ignored or severely discounted if pursuit of that goal is alleged – if only on the flimsiest of evidence or even on mere conjecture – to possibly interfere with humanity’s new Great Purpose, which is reducing as much as is physically possible the risk of exposure to the pathogen. Dying of the likes of cancer, suicide, drug overdose, or poverty is sad but acceptable; dying of Covid-19, however, is an unspeakable tragedy and utterly unacceptable. And wishing simply to enjoy life at the risk of exposure to the virus is the height of suicidal irrationality and homicidal evil.

Dogma 3: Concern for freedom is not merely foolish but downright intolerable if our rulers tell us that we can reduce our risk of exposure to the coronavirus by giving up more of our freedom. All dissent from efforts that are said to promote the Great Purpose must be ignored and perhaps even forcibly quashed. All for the greater good, you see.

This is what is killing the free world's economy and apparently the backbone of Democratic responses to the pandemic!


WV 

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