America remains bound by often extreme pandemic restrictions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying 6 feet away from others. In Oregon, everyone must wear a mask outdoors. In parts of the country, 2-year-olds must wear masks.
Are such rules necessary?
Recently, Denmark lifted all pandemic restrictions.
“Go Denmark!” cheers George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux in my latest video. “We in the United States should do the same.”
“We reduced COVID, through vaccination, to a fairly mild ailment for the vast majority of people,” says Boudreaux. “You don’t have to worry if the bartender at your favorite bar is vaccinated or not. You are protected against suffering severe consequences. Get vaccinated, and then go about your life normally!”
Portugal and Sweden recently removed most restrictions, too. The United Kingdom ditched plans to require “vaccine passports.”
“We don’t have to continue to upend human life in our quest to eliminate COVID, which can’t happen anyway,” says Boudreaux.
“Why not?” I ask. “We eliminated smallpox.”
“Smallpox resides only in human beings,” explains Boudreaux. COVID-19 can live in animals — bats, deer, dogs, cats. “We have never eliminated a disease that uses both humans and animals as reservoirs.”
Still, China acted as if eliminating COVID-19 were possible.
They’ve kept deaths much lower (if you believe their numbers) than other countries by imposing nasty repressive measures like quarantines at gunpoint and even locking people in their homes.
“It’s just awful. It’s tyrannical. It’s what you expect of a Communist tyrannical government,” says Boudreaux.
Australia’s been almost that tough. They’ve also imposed curfews and arrested people for not wearing masks. In some places, police proudly announced they “smashed windows of people in cars and pull them out … because they weren’t telling us where they were going.”
Don’t worry about losing freedom, says Daniel Andrews, premier of the state of Victoria. “They’re not rules that are against you. They are rules for you.”
“So say all dictators and tyrants,” retorts Boudreaux.
These countries can’t lock down forever. When the lockdowns stop, COVID-19 will return.
That’s why Denmark ended COVID-19 restrictions.
“It’s not admitting defeat; it’s admitting reality,” says Boudreaux. “We learn to live with COVID in the same way that we learn to live with many other pathogens. … The bacteria that caused the Black Death is still circulating in the human population. A handful of people every year still die of it.”
In the Wall Street Journal, he wrote, “Eradication of Covid is a dangerous and expensive fantasy.”
“We live with countless hazards, each of which we could but sensibly choose not to eradicate. Automobile fatalities could be eradicated by outlawing motor vehicles. Drowning could be eradicated by outlawing swimming and bathing. Electrocution could be eradicated by outlawing electricity. We live with these risks not because we’re indifferent to suffering but because we understand that the costs of zero-drowning or zero-electrocution would be far too great. The same is true of zero-Covid.”
That’s why, now that we have largely effective vaccines, he says it’s time to end pointless lockdowns and do what Denmark is doing:
“Live life normally again! Travel, go to parties, weddings, sporting events. Live life and be joyous! Hopefully, humanity will come to its senses soon.”
I hope he’s right.
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Wonderful video. Everyone needs to get back to living life.
It’s not about controlling a virus. The virus is going to continue doing what it does best; survive.
There will be new strains because it will continue to evolve in order to sustain its existence.
It’s about control.
Masks do little although they will catch liquid particles if one sneezes or coughs. They are great at collecting moisture, pollen, and dust which create wonderful breeding ground for bacteria. And wearing the mask concentrates that petri dish right where you inhale.
The size difference between the fibers in the masks and the size of the virus is akin to that between a opening in a chain link fence and a grain of sand.
Imagine you threw a hand full of sand at that fence. The metal wire of the fence may block a few, but that is about how effective the mask is in preventing the virus from spreading. The majority simply pass on through.
Amen Brother, that is the absolute best way to explain how little these rediculously stupid masks actually do.
I will take My so called “dangerous freedoms” over the BS LIE of govt backed safety ANY DAY, and EVERY DAY, Period!! 🙏🙏👍👍