This will make your night.
The great Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, in a roundtable discussion headed by Governor Ron DeSantis, said this:
"Dr. Fauci’s been involved in infectious disease control for a very long time. He is a preeminent scientist for a good reason; he is an expert. But in early February, March, we sort of put him on a pedestal...to essentially give his knowledge about a whole range of things, some of which was in his control and knowledge set, and some of which was not.
"And I saw him a few months ago…where he very humbly said, look, I’m giving you my expertise, as an infectious disease expert, on how to manage this disease. I’m not looking at the broader policy context.
"We think about science as giving us all the answers, but that’s a mistake. What science does is tell us if we do A, we might get B...
"It's up to...non-scientists to make a decision: Do we want to get B if we know the costs of getting B are C, D, and E? Do we really want zero COVID?...
"If you get zero COVID -- I don’t know if it’s even technically feasible -- we know that we’re going to have to destroy our society in order to get it. We’ll have to get rid of all of our freedoms; we’ll have to make sure that very few people interact with each other....
"Essentially, it’s so high a cost that it’s not worth it. Science can tell us: here’s how you can maximize the probability of getting zero COVID. But it’s up to non-scientists to decide whether it’s worth it....
"You can't put one person on a pedestal and ask them to make that decision for society. I love that I live in a democratic society where those kinds of decisions aren’t up to experts; it's up to people deciding together through electoral processes what we value."
That's common sense, isn't it?
No "expert" can tell you if costs are worth the benefits, because no "expert" can know your value scale. So when people say we need to listen to the experts as they urge us to dismantle everything that makes a society function and brings people joy, they have no idea what they're talking about. This is a philosophical question, not a scientific one that any "expert" would have the standing to answer.
Unfortunately, for some people "science" isn't an ongoing search for the truth and whose findings can help us make good decisions; it is a kind of priesthood. Whatever "scientists" tell us about anything, no matter how far removed from their areas of expertise, these people will obey.
The dangers of this should be obvious.
Not only do we have a priesthood that isn't even thinking about tradeoffs or collateral damage from their COVID monomania, but we also have tens of millions of devoted followers who will help enforce whatever lunacy the priesthood proposes.
Your hopes, dreams, and livelihood will be placed on their altar, of that you can be sure.
Hence:
Until we can bring people to their senses, it's worth thinking about how to run your life -- and support yourself -- via something the crazies can't shut down in the bogus name of "health," and that "peaceful protesters" can't burn to the ground.
You may have heard my discussion with GearBubble CEO Donald Wilson on the Tom Woods Show.
I strongly recommend you watch his presentation on this exact topic, and how you can run a store without a zillion-dollar mortgage, literal tons of inventory, and worries about whether the state may shut you down.
If not now, when?
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