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/hdD9y68emhA "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it;...
https://youtu.be/BvdZ3HkrI1U Expert failure is especially likely where experts hold monopoly power and where they are insulated from the consequences of their predictions and actions. This is due to the lack of contestation over ideas and their interpretation, as well...
https://youtu.be/St3AUXDzkLs Profit and loss signals provide incentives for producers to either change or continue their behavior. These signals disappear under a socialist regime. - Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall, Austrian Economics: An Introduction Abigail...