Heroic statement from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in this Newsweek article.
Many of us knew this a year prior. I had thought it was obvious that shutting down huge swaths of a complex, modern economy would produce devastating outcomes. Apparently it wasn’t so obvious, which to me was terrifying.
The fact that most people have no idea how dependent they and their families are on the unhampered functioning of a market economy is horrifying. I was horrified when, a year ago, states began issuing shelter-in-place orders, as if we can turn off the economy like a light switch, and then turn it back on again when we feel like it.
The only thing standing between us and the Stone Age is our developed economy. Almost no one understands that, and it is a tragedy. It’s still almost impossible to believe what has happened over the past year. Not the virus, but the reaction to the virus. And how long it took for libertarians to rise to the occasion and condemn this epoch-defining destruction of liberty.
Contra Biden, lockdowns, masks, and the widespread support for both, are products of a Neanderthal state of mind. And the Neanderthals, usually Phd-educated and with a sky-high IQ, are demanding more lockdowns, more Stalinism, and downplaying the devastation caused by it.
