In implementing these types of dictates and commands, with the implied attitude that government officials have no restraints on their controls and decrees other than the ones they decide to impose on themselves, American politicians are no different than their implicit mentors in Beijing, China.
My prediction is that Americans, left to their own tendencies, will roar together as giants and will ignore the political and media crybabies.
We need new drugs to fight COVID-19 and other diseases. But our government’s approval process makes that too hard.
Politicians rush to limit our choices in the name of “keeping us safe.”
Sadly, conservatives and libertarians are perpetuating this myth that the UBI will replace the overgrown welfare system, or serve as a substantial alternative.
A wholesale economic lockdown in a pandemic does not protect but violates rights.
The point of the principle of indivisibility is to remind us that the various freedoms rise or fall together, even if with various lags, even if some freedom, for a time, seems to be rising as others fall; in whatever direction the freedoms move, eventually they tend to dovetail.
Grievance scholars, from gender studies, queer, sexuality and critical race studies, bully students, administrators, into adhering to their worldview.
If we want economic prosperity and human flourishing, we need to understand capitalism and advocate for it globally—and to shun countries like China that continue to violate individual rights.
Riding out storms and sharing risks across billions of people is a feature, not a bug, and the affluent capitalist nature of our institutions puts us in a better position to deal with them.
The COVID-19 crisis is the result of decades of FDA rule.
It may be perplexing to some, but I believe that our nation has made great progress in matters of race, so much so that imaginary racism and racial hoaxes must be found.
The press conference President Donald Trump should hold now
Libertarians are right that the size, scope and power of government expand amid crises, but there’s no necessity to this, as they assume, and they have no remedy – even during crises – because they hate the state more than statism; but a new book takes a better approach.
Government’s rules often make it harder for private actors to help people. In a crisis, America’s unsung heroes are people who overcome that.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie,” he said. “One word of truth outweighs the world.”
In a time of crisis we need leaders to communicate openly, frankly, and truthfully.
This bailout is quite unfair to those relatively few states that are responsible with their finances. Through this federal action, taxpayers in those states have to bail out the government officials and citizens of irresponsible states.
Because nobody had an incentive to stockpile PPE or other medical equipment.
Three simple reforms: (1) posted prices for procedures; (2) Goodman-esque health savings accounts and high-deductible insurance; (3) age rather than community rating.
Fundamental to everything that governments have been doing is the presumption that the crisis can only be handled and solved through a comprehensive system of political command and control.
We are setting ourselves up to become Japan when it suffered more than two “lost decades” of weak or no economic growth.
Leave people free to make their own choices and allow the free market to work its miracle of fulfilling the urgent demands of the moment to save lives, supply very needed goods and services, and find profitable ways of keeping those goods flowing and jobs existing to maintain as best as possible our standards of living.
Why weren’t there enough Wuhan Corona Virus (COVID-19) tests? Because our government insists on control of medical innovation.
For more than two centuries the Electoral College has encouraged coalition building, given a voice to both big and small states, and discouraged voter fraud.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Evidence is mounting that the Wuhan China virus (“COVID-19”) won’t prove as deadly as first projected; yet there’s still a high level of hysteria and an ominous spread of deleterious economic and public health policies, amounting to incarceration (indiscriminate quarantines), monetization (redistribution of wealth), and nationalization (socialism/fascism). What’s needed instead – if health and wealth are desired – is deregulation, tax relief, and capitalism.
An illuminating discussion by philosopher’s Onkar Ghate and Greg Salmieri, which takes a “big picture” philosophical analysis on the coronavirus pandemic.
I fear the kind of government that can shut down public gatherings and centrally plan healthcare and everything else. I fear it much more than a virus.
Bernie Sanders’ statements are not that different from those of Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Chavez and other tyrants.
Highly restrictive government regulations have had the unintended consequence of shutting down tests that could detect outbreaks and save lives.
The South Korean government has brought about superior outcomes than the much heavier handed, authoritarian measures of China, Italy, the U.S., and virtually every other afflicted nation.
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