Where’s the Emergency?

Posted on August 13, 2020August 17, 2020 by Mike Wittmann

We are FIVE MONTHS into the COVID-19 experience. I don’t know a single person who has died or even had serious complications from CV. I personally know fewer than 5 people who have even tested positive for it.

This is not what an emergency looks like. This is what a statist power grab looks like.

The Mob State

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.
Ayn Rand

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The Problem with the World

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Turtle Power

Me whenever some mid-level bureaucrat tries to ratchet up the mask mandates:

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The Social Network

Humans have maintained rich and fulfilling social lives for our entire history without needing the ability to send a few bits of information each month to people we knew briefly during high school.
Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism

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Tolerance

“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”
Viktor E. Frankl

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