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The Absurdity of Let It Rip

The Absurdity of Let It Rip
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) wheel a man out of the Cobble Hill Health Center nursing home during an outbreak of COVID-19 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 17, 2020. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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The mainstream press is, inevitably, publishing pandemic retrospectives to instruct us on how to think about the most catastrophic “public health” policies in living memory. You won’t be surprised at the message: yes, mistakes were made but we did our best overall and promise to do better next time.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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