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/kQw2fQyN33w How many mass murder campaigns (often called “wars”) will governments have to be involved in before Progressives admit that the state is the very threat to society that they claim to be protecting us from? - Keith Knight, Domestic...
https://youtu.be/FOZyecmNSOc [W]ealthy societies did not get rich by extracting their wealth from elsewhere. Rather, they did so by becoming more productive and thus creating more wealth. - Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business Justin Tosi is an Associate Professor of...
I believe that every argument should begin with commonly understood definitions. Capitalism is a social system based on the explicit recognition of private property and voluntary contracts. Communism is the abolition of private property altogether. And socialism is...