By now most of us who actually have followed the science know just how ridiculous the various mandates to “keep us safe” have been. Dr. Tom Woods has been at the forefront of actually revealing through statistical surveys just what the effects of some of these restrictions are and are not. While I am sure that many of us are tired of the COVID nonsense, the frauds in our government agencies “protecting us” continue to hype nonsense. So, it is important to continue to refute their insanity.
Recently Tom Woods attended an in-person conference at the Mises Institute and has shared his experiences in and around the conference. I have reproduced his report below.
I’m writing to you from an in-person conference. No capacity limit, no dehumanizing masks, because it’s on a property not open to the general public: the Mises Institute.
I’m here for their Austrian Economics Research Conference, where the brightest scholars gather to share their work in pushing our intellectual tradition forward.
But although this conference, which is 100% Old Normal, is great, there’s still lunacy in Alabama.
I had to run to the dry cleaners, where I saw a sign informing me that because of COVID-19, they would no longer be recycling coat hangers.
Say what?
Now the “follow the science” people think the virus spreads by coat hangers?
Even the official authorities tell us that there is not a single documented case of the virus spreading from an infected surface.
At the hotel, meanwhile, there are no housekeeping services being offered. States where hotels do typically offer housekeeping services have no worse outcomes than states that don’t, so this strikes me as simply an excuse not to offer a standard service.
When checking in, I was asked to hold up my ID rather than handing it to the hotel clerk — because, as you know, the virus spreads by contaminated driver’s licenses.
They also had me make my own magnetic key by picking one up from a pile and then placing it on the machine. Because, of course, if they’d handed me my key they might have given me the virus.
How have we allowed these people to claim the mantle of science?
Now, a few miscellaneous items you’ll enjoy:
(1) The Washington Post just wrote, “Some studies indicate that mask mandates and limitations on group activities such as indoor dining can help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but less clear is why states with greater government-imposed restrictions have not always fared better than those without them.” Well, well, well.
(2) The New York Times just wrote, “The origin of the six-foot distancing recommendation is something of a mystery. ‘It’s almost like it was pulled out of thin air,’ said Linsey Marr, an expert on viral transmission at Virginia Tech University.” You don’t say!
(3) Let’s compare Midwestern states with lots of restrictions (blue) with Midwestern states with few or no restrictions (red). I’ll bet it’s just awful in the more open states.
Hmm. States without all the draconian restrictions seem to fare as well as those with and perhaps just a little bit better. Why? It couldn’t be that quacks led us down the primrose path, could it? Oh, and why were there no immunity experts on the task forces that came up with these restrictions?
The number of new cases has fallen off a cliff. This has happened in both states with and states without restrictions. The decline is long before any meaningful effect could be felt from the vaccines being given. Why? Could it be that we are beginning to achieve the herd immunity that the quacks in government claimed wouldn’t happen until 85% of the population had been vaccinated? Again, why were there no immunity experts on the task forces?