Most of you know Gene Epstein, former economics and book review editor at Barron's, and director of the Soho
Forum debate series.
From the start of the lunacy, Gene has always favored allowing people -- including himself -- to live their lives.
Just today Gene wrote:
"Still alive at 75 and with no 'co-morbidities' at all (never spent a night in a hospital), I assume that even on the remote chance I caught COVID, I'd pull through fine. My risk of dying from COVID seems no greater than other death-risks for a healthy 75 y.o. Manhattanite. So I choose a normal life over the living-death that so many have tragically chosen."
He then notes that if he were a prominent person in poorer health (e.g., heavier) he might take more precautions. But given his situation, he'd rather live than endure the living death of lockdowns.
Not everyone agrees, as we well know.
There's a county in my state (Florida) that limited businesses to one person per 1000 feet -- not for any scientific reason, but because it made the math easy.
Feel like being at the mercy of people like that?
If not, well, that's what I'm here for.
I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming, today, visiting a state where life is mostly normal (and where a recent spike in "cases" amounted to pretty much nothing).
The not-yet-showered Woods made you a short video from Cheyenne:
Tom Woods