People Should be “Seething Mad” Over COVID – And Much More

 In supposedly democratic nations like the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, officials didn't bother with legislation - they just decreed that schools must close, masks must be worn, people must submit to vaccine jabs, non-essential businesses must close, and other mandates.

Many people are angry over the harm that has been done by the tyrants who made the COVID decisions.

Atlas points out that even though there was little or no evidence to support the dictates of the authorities and - even early on - much evidence against them, we were told over and over again that: COVID had a far higher mortality rate than the flu, that everyone was at significant risk of death from it, that asymptomatic people were major drivers of the disease, that masks gave protection and would stop the spread, and that vaccines would stop the disease.

The approach these scientists advocated would do the most good for vulnerable people, with the least damage to the rest of us - but it didn't involve massive government intervention.

If people learn those lessons, they're well on their way to understanding Public Choice Theory.

Public Choice teaches that government "Solutions" to problems often make things worse because the people who are in charge are flawed, fallible, corruptible human beings just like everyone else.

If people are now skeptical about allowing government officials to dictate how we must behave during an outbreak of disease, they can also be persuaded to be skeptical about allowing government officials to run education, energy policy, and much more.

They're in league with certain interest groups and don't listen to people who advocate a free market in energy, any more than the lockdowners listened to those who disagreed with them.

What would happen if we had another major volcanic eruption after government has switched us away from fossil fuels? The answer is that great numbers of people would freeze and starve.

If you dig into almost any governmental bureaucracy, you find that the officials in charge aren't experts dedicated to the public welfare, but instead are ordinary people who happen to have known the right people to land comfy jobs where they get to boss others around.

We have a "Teachable moment" in the country when the people can see how bad government control truly is.

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