In the name of “the science,” people did destructive and irrational and inhuman things, none of which accomplished much of anything — apart from disrupting people’s scheduled medical procedures, decimating people’s savings, destroying their businesses, and causing a spike in mental health problems, addiction, and suicide.
To the surprise of many, it turns out that “public health officials” are members of the fallible human race just as we are. Far from being purely rational, unbiased individuals in search of only the common good; they succumb to peer pressure, social desirability bias, laziness, cherry picking, and sensationalism.
Why was it, that during the COVID-19 pandemic, states and countries with radically different policy approaches had similar outcomes regarding COVID deaths? Thomas E. Woods Jr. walks you through the madness in his new book, Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Heath Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania.
Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.
https://youtu.be/e4qYxilAIR8 “First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your...
https://youtu.be/IK14Xp0d-qg “First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your...
https://youtu.be/qxykDSLaGiQ The characteristic mark of big business is mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. Under capitalism the workers themselves, directly or indirectly, are the main consumers of all those things that the factories are...