There are very few forces known to man more destructive than gray-suited bureaucrats believing that they must do something and that they are properly equipped to do so.
Tag - unintended consequences
Isn’t it obvious that people flourish in actual safety? Are people flocking to Florida, Texas, and Idaho in order to feel unsafe?
You have the right to belong to yourself; but that right cannot destroy somebody else’s rights.
I’d like to share a story from my own life to illustrate a few of the ways in which sweeping, reflexive lockdowns can negatively impact real people.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s policies for nursing homes during COVID-19 have had disastrous results.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Mayor Says Coronavirus Lockdown Has Trade-offs | Guest: Glenn Jacobs | Ep 61
Matt Kibbe is joined via Skype by Glenn Jacobs, the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, to discuss how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Well-meaning but dangerously misguided one-size-fits-all directives are creating huge disruptions in the provision of needed care.
We have to balance the opinions of doctors with those from a wide variety of other relevant fields.
Government seems to have a history of taking societal problems and crisis and catastrophically making them worse by legislating one size fits all solutions.
Matt Kibbe makes some sense of the coronavirus outbreak and economic implications of rash political decisions.