Thanks for ringing the alarm bells early in 2020. I accepted the lockdowns at first, but writers like you helped me see the errors in the policy.
I eventually realized that in addition to harmful unintended consequences, lockdowns are a completely illogical method of combating disease, even in theory. As Martin Kulldorf put it, lockdowns are a “let it drip” strategy, where more dangerous variants persist for longer, putting the most vulnerable at higher risk for a longer period of time.
You wrote: "Throughout most of the pandemic, however, there were those who didn’t want to pay any attention to opportunity costs or the unintended consequences of government lockdowns—and they were legion."
Since government folks are malevolent, malicious, malignant entities, they intend 3m consequences, I get the impression that you resemble the Squealer character in the Animal Farm novel by claiming that government folks intend to benefit folks through their behavior. What am I missing?
Not a side effect, the intended purpose.
Thanks for ringing the alarm bells early in 2020. I accepted the lockdowns at first, but writers like you helped me see the errors in the policy.
I eventually realized that in addition to harmful unintended consequences, lockdowns are a completely illogical method of combating disease, even in theory. As Martin Kulldorf put it, lockdowns are a “let it drip” strategy, where more dangerous variants persist for longer, putting the most vulnerable at higher risk for a longer period of time.
@Jon Militmore
You wrote: "Throughout most of the pandemic, however, there were those who didn’t want to pay any attention to opportunity costs or the unintended consequences of government lockdowns—and they were legion."
Since government folks are malevolent, malicious, malignant entities, they intend 3m consequences, I get the impression that you resemble the Squealer character in the Animal Farm novel by claiming that government folks intend to benefit folks through their behavior. What am I missing?