> From Tom Woods: > I think you know the answer. > View in browser <https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/flcovid?e=f30652cae7> > > Two items for you this morning. > > First, a few social media remarks from a physician and academic (Dr. > Victoria Fox): > > *I’m sorry -- it’s time for public health officials to implement > evidence-based pandemic mitigation solutions that are logistically > feasible, sustainable and target the problem while allowing society to > function. Give people viable solutions they can implement day to day to > protect their loved ones during outbreaks. You can’t tell the world to stay > home and 'socially distance' -- whatever that even means -- and then act > shocked, pissed and punish society because your vague, untested voodoo > didn’t work. Because the truth is there is no good solution to this -- only > tradeoffs. Public health doesn’t want to be responsible for the adverse > outcomes of the tradeoffs so they have developed a strategy that [claims] > the pandemic [is] preventable and places blame on society for not > complying.* > > So perfectly said. > > Instead of being mature adults who understand that widespread shutdowns > leave massive wreckage in their wake -- and I've chronicled these numerous > times in this space; they're so devastating that I cannot believe any > compassionate human being could support lockdowns -- we are instead to > ignore the wreckage, make the whole thing into a simple morality play, and > then lecture people for not complying when the virus doesn't simply go away. > > Again, I can show you charts of states and countries that locked down, > with the names removed. You will not be able to tell me which ones locked > down, how hard they locked down, how intense their so-called mitigation > strategies were, or when or how widely they reopened. That is just a fact. > Nitpick me all you want, but this is something I guarantee you cannot do. > > Yet, just like Keynesian stimulus, when the approach doesn't work our > overlords respond with an even heavier dose of the original poison. So when > the Obama stimulus yielded terrible results, the response from its > evidence-impervious architects was not that the whole approach might be > juvenile and destructive to begin with, but (of course) that they hadn't > done enough of it. > > Same with the lockdowns -- and in general it's the same people advocating > them. As another observer recently pointed out, had Florida locked down to > cope with the Sun Belt spike and gotten the results below, this chart would > have been "presented as scientific proof lockdowns prevented overwhelmed > hospitals. Instead they didn’t, so we just stop talking about Florida." > > > > > Second item: > > You will no doubt recall -- because it was everywhere on social media for > days -- a paper published by an "Institute for Labor Economics" claiming > that the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota was responsible for over > 266,000 new COVID "cases." > > The authors' contempt for the people they treat in that paper is evident > throughout, starting from the very beginning: the paper opens with a > quotation from the singer of Smash Mouth, a band that performed there, > saying that enough is enough and it's good to see people living like human > beings again. > > There have been plenty of responses to that paper that have cut it off at > the knees, but now even Slate -- which isn't exactly eager to exonerate > mostly pro-Trump motorcycle dudes -- ran an article you can find in the > search engines called "The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases > of COVID-19." It concludes: > > "Exaggerated headlines and cherry-picking of results for 'I told you > so' media moments can dangerously undermine the long-term integrity of the > science -- something we can little afford right now." > > And finally, two happy things to leave you with on a Sunday: > > (1) We didn't vote for Dr. Fauci, but here's a way to vote against him in > your personal life. Tomorrow (Monday) night I'm doing one more live > workshop with Tom Woods Show guest (and creator of multiple companies) Mark > Ling. We're getting much more specific in this one. Want to make yourself > immune to shutdowns, so the lunatics can't destroy how you make your > living? Here's how -- and while we're at it, we'll be taking a sledgehammer > to the mental glass ceiling inside your head. Don't even think about > missing it: http://www.tomwoods.com/sledgehammer > <https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=5867c30637&e=f30652cae7> > > (2) If you're going stir crazy and miss in-person events, remember that > the Mises Institute's Supporters Summit is not taking place over Zoom, like > everything else these days, but in person: Jekyll Island, Georgia, October > 8-10. I'll be speaking alongside some great liberty luminaries. Details: > https://mises.org/events/supporters-summit-2020 > <https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=930d10a92b&e=f30652cae7> > > Tom Woods > > > > > > > This email was sent to [email protected] > *why did I get this?* > <https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/about?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=f8f9156967&e=f30652cae7&c=cefde6e787> > unsubscribe from this list > <https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=f8f9156967&e=f30652cae7&c=cefde6e787> > update subscription preferences > <https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/profile?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=f8f9156967&e=f30652cae7> > Tom Woods · PO Box 701447 · Saint Cloud, FL 34770 · USA > > ---
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