Biden-Harris Favor National Lockdown: Rebellion Will Result
by Michael Rozeff
It was on August
21, 2020 when Biden said “I would shut it down; I would listen to the
scientists. We’re going to do whatever it takes to save lives.” Biden is a dumb
man and an ignorant man who is saying things that are designed to be comforting
and vote-getting. But in the real world, he has no clue how to listen to
scientists who differ in their opinions and then come up with a policy that
somehow is right for everyone, and he has no idea how to weigh the advice of
doctors who conflict against economic advice offered by Austrian economics. He
doesn’t know how to lock down the country to save lives without at the same
time destroying its financial pathways and causing mass starvation and death.
The free market has long since found ways to
handle all sorts of problems, and one of these ways is to leave it to
individual doctors to deal with individual patients and to form their own
networks of doctors by which to spread information about means of prevention
and cures. Biden would overturn and suppress all of this with an order from
above. It is his kind of thinking that has suppressed the use of HCQ, zinc, and
vitamin therapies, in favor of drugs that do not work, and therapies such as
ventilators that killed people. Biden is in the same category as Cuomo, the
nursing home murderer, and Whitmer with her irrational detailed orders.
Biden’s doing “whatever it takes” means
abandoning established ways, means, and principles at all costs. Does “whatever
it takes” make sense in the existing situation? It presumes that the threat is
so gigantic that everything must be thrown into the battle against it. But is
this threat that huge, that mammoth? Is it so massive that the economy must be
sacrificed, with its own massive costs? And even if that sacrifice is made, how
will that “beat the virus” as Buttigieg put it? If Americans routinely handle
flu bugs and automobile deaths and criminals and nuclear threats and marital
breakups, why can’t they handle this novel virus without simultaneously
destroying themselves, their work, their families, their happiness, their
businesses, and their manifold relationships? Of course, they can handle it. The
people who have failed the challenge are primarily the politicians who
implemented drastic and drastically wrong policies. Biden and Harris want more
of the same.
Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South
Bend repeated this today, saying
“Everything has to be on the table in order to keep Americans safe.” Buttigieg
postulated “the first rule of virus economics is to beat the virus or else you
won’t have an economy.”
Biden’s statement is dumb. Buttigieg’s
statement is dumb. These men are saying extremely dumb things that, if carried
out, are incredibly destructive while completely failing to “beat the virus”.
These guys apparently don’t read, don’t
listen, cannot think straight, have no idea how the world works, and don’t
digest information. They have no correct ideas about COVID. They have no
understanding of how the country has dealt in the past with diseases and no
idea of what’s going on now in comparison. They are completely clueless about
how free people can cope with disease threats without being locked up in their
dwellings while they physically and mentally deteriorate. They have no idea how
adaptable people are who make their own decisions.
Buttigieg is nuts about beating the virus by
locking down. The economy will function, it will go on working, without first
attempting to exterminate a disease, any disease, be it the Black Death, TB,
Polio, Pellagra, or Plague. In fact, it is only as a consequence of there being economic activity
that carries on despite impediments,
bombings, ice ages, floods, blitzes, diseases, and malign government rules like
price and wage controls, lockdowns, and quotas that people seek and discover
ways to mitigate the evils bombarding them. A virus is one of many such threats
to lives and livelihoods, and Mayor Pete is totally ignorant when he says you
won’t have an economy until you beat the virus. This has never been true when
we faced numerous threats, including those from viruses and contagious
diseases. The fact is that you are assured of not having an economy if you lock
it down in a vain attempt to beat a virus, whatever that means. And you are
assured of preventing people from adapting to the situation of threat or
disruption, whatever it may be. For example, people left to their own devices
will clear the streets of rioters faster than any government will or has in the
recent episodes. Locking down people from having guns and organizing
self-defense is a sure way, for example, to prolong riots and their expansion.
Biden has no idea how to process
contradictory information coming from conflicting studies and scientists.
Saving lives by “whatever means it takes” is no principle that he can implement
either.
These politicians should not be listened to.
They are quacks. They offer snake oil and poisons as remedies.
Lockdown is a simple word that became
prominent as a means of closing down a school facing a threat of a shooter. It
gained currency in the Boston manhunt for the Marathon bombers. It wasn’t clear
in these cases whether even this level of lockdown made any sense.
Still, less does it make any known sense to
lock down an economy. The term doesn’t apply. Everyone just stops working,
traveling, and producing?? This is sheer madness. People will soon run out of
food, medicine, and everything else, including vital services if a lockdown is
actually made to be effective by force of law and penalties. The result of a
real biting lockdown will be a rebellion of the populace. There would be total
chaos. We didn’t have total chaos but we did get partial chaos or a taste of
chaos from the lockdowns we did endure. Most of us saw firsthand the shortages
that occurred right away, including a shortage of coins. There were stores that
would not make changes or required a card.
What exactly do Biden and Buttigieg conceive
is “on the table”? They conceive that they will use their powers in an anti-virus
campaign. But for what end? Clearly, the end is to augment these powers and hold
on to them indefinitely. The end is not to destroy the whole economy, because
that’s senseless, but to shift the political map in their favor. If that takes
destroying whole parts of the economy, they’ll do it. The result will be
rebellion.