The Big Government COVID-19 lie
Ben Shapiro on today's State 'church': 'If you are not faithful, you are a heretic'
By Ben ShapiroPublished December 21, 2021 at 7:32pm
On Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the presidential election, Joe Biden tweeted, "I'm not going to shut down the country. I'm not going to shut down the economy. I'm going to shut down the virus."
This was a lie.
It was a lie because nobody can shut down the virus.
Government does not have the power to end disease, as a general matter. When it comes to a wildly transmissible coronavirus specifically, no government can end the virus. Even the sainted Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted as much: "We're never going to eradicate this … elimination may be too aspirational."
Which means that government should not aim for elimination; it can aim for some level of control. That control must be balanced with countervailing concerns, ranging from suppression of economic freedom to the effects of social isolation. This means that the lowest-cost intervention was incentivization and distribution of vaccines – a service performed by the Trump administration. The worst form of control would be overbroad, coercive restrictions that fail to achieve their objectives.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/big-government-covid-19-lie/
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