Imagine if the authorities had decided to do nothing about the supposed COVID pandemic. No lockdowns, masks, vaccines, no nothing. The results would have been far better than what we got. From Brad Pearce at libertarianinstitute.org:
On March 17, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a woman named Mary Anastasia O’Grady titled, “Giving up on Haiti Isn’t a U.S. Option.” She argues, in short, that Americans don’t have a choice but to continue doing all the things that have failed in the past while being aware that these strategies have been a failure.
This type of thinking is common among America’s ruling class, where there is an enormous “bias for action,” often with disastrous consequences. Though the proverb “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is well known, our ruling class behaves as if surface-level good intentions are all that matter, much moreso than the actual impact of their policies. It is long past time that Americans learn the value of only acting when it is appropriate to do so and prioritize making a wise decision over being compelled to “do something.” Given the fact that all government action has other consequences, it’s often that a policy of non-intervention is the wisest choice of all.
The examples of a bias for action leading to bad policy decisions are endless. This is a broader symptom of the problem of having no frame of reference but bad World War II comparisons; everything is “letting” Hitler take Czechoslovakia. The Rwandan Genocide is also seen as an example of shameful inaction. In neither instance is it clear that the United States had any capacity to deal with those problems or that it would not have made things worse.
In fact, it further infuriates perpetrators of violence against their victims if they feel their victims have caused outside forces to get involved. Injecting another violent force just increases the amount of violence. It isn’t just foreign policy though; for example, the federal government paid for wolf bounties for decades, then drastically reversed course and banned killing wolves for decades. Now this program is mostly managed more rationally at a state level. This country also went directly from state-enforced segregation to state-enforced integration, but never actually tried promoting freedom of association and letting people integrate to the extent they wished. It is notable that Sunday morning is the most segregated time in America, as churches could not be forced to integrate due to freedom of religion. This very rarely upsets anyone, whereas we fight about affirmative action and similiar public policies all the time. These are just two random examples from a control-obsessed ruling class who can never leave anything alone.
When will the government do something, we must do something. This will never get fixed until the government does something. (/s)
Just read a great Substack out of AUS about the infantile culture catering to various so called victims.
When there are fakes who just want it done their way, the ones with actual conditions suffer.
Government says your terms are acceptable as the only thing that it really does, expand power, continues.
Virtue signal uber alles for the Baizuo.
Puritanism will go away one day?
I knew to ignore or laugh at everything coming out of teevee, social media hive, Big Pharmakeia, mommygov and McHealthcarez during the plandemic LARP.
Since we learned nothing from history man made statist utopianism will have an even higher KIA count in the 21st century.