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Like some books, there are petitions that deserve to be forgotten, not for the sake of their potential readers but to protect the reputation of their authors. The open letter by a bevy of economists urging Scott Morrison to keep the COVID-19 restrictions in place is a case in point.
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These economists have pandemic experience? Or only socialist?
These Economists must be good at passing exams. Otherwise they are as dumb as a box of rocks.
Yes, this is exactly what’s needed here – people who are (or at least appear to be) experts in one area of input into a major decision pontificating about the totality of the situation.
I must contest this.
We cannot have a person’s reputation being only their creditable deeds while their discreditable ones are airbrushed from history. A person’s reputation should reflect what they are, not some mythical form.
Just another example that an education, and a bit of paper saying so, proves nothing, and isn’t worth shit anymore.
We live in a world wide web where everyone is an expert.
Hence,
Socialists can apply market mechanisms to control the weather.
Libertarians condone the enforcement of social lockdowns.
Economists are now also health experts.
And nobody will ever change their minds.
Joe Biden’s health adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has called for the USA to be locked down for eighteen months, as though there would be no enormous and lasting consequences for such a policy. (Emanuel also has declared that no one over age seventy-five should be permitted to receive medical care. One supposes that he will make an exception for his 78-year-old boss.)
https://mises.org/wire/anthony-fauci-when-politics-trumps-science
We have to live with this problem just as societies throughout history have lived with much worse, from the bubonic plague that roiled much of the world for centuries to smallpox epidemics, to the measles and polio epidemics of my childhood (I got measles and all of us were scared to death of catching polio, which ravaged one of my relatives) to the common flu of modern times. Thanks to capitalism—yes, capitalism—we not only see fewer pandemics in the world, but are better able to stand up to them.
One can surmise that Fauci would never understand the role that capitalism has played in eradicating not only diseases around the world, but also poverty and hunger. As a public health bureaucrat all of his professional life, who sees the world in terms of budgets, spending, and following orders, he simply cannot fathom how private enterprise makes the world a healthier place, and so he cannot understand that one does not eradicate diseases by destroying an economy. And that, not any alleged “deep state” activities, makes him unfit to be the face of fighting the coronavirus.
https://mises.org/wire/anthony-fauci-when-politics-trumps-science
These economist goons apparently aren’t even aware that these virtue signalling petitions always end in major embarrassment for the signers.
Trump has criticized the Georgia governor for opening too soon. Who is right?
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
Who is he? None other than the brother of Rahm, the current Democrat Mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to Barry Obama. Quite the Marxist.
It’s a club.
Boris G,
Which Georgia?
Yours or the Yanks?