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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded -- and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency persists." (Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. 3, 1979, 124)
Joe Biden, announcing his totalitarian vaccine decree:
"We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us." (Yahoo News)
There is zero evidence that the unvaccinated are a danger to the vaccinated.
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects. (F.A. Hayek)
Another point of fact: Those over 50 are the cohort with the highest rate of vaccination. They are also the cohort that is overwhelmingly filling our hospitals and dying of covid
New Normal?
Hayek also observed (apologies, I cannot find the exact quote) that the problem with government programs of persuasion is that if the people cannot be nudged and cajoled into cooperation, the program will end in dictatorial coercion.
Post 9/11 hysteria spawned the golden age of the panopticon surveillance state and gargantuan bureaucracies--unaccountable to We The People--violating our liberties all in the name of keeping us "safe."
COVID has ushered in an age of Safetyism and Scientism Uber Alles. Can We The People claw back our freedoms?
See Also: Coordination Problem - Peter Boettke
