1/4 The aim of Covid policy should not be to suppress or to control the virus (aims which all nations who were not able to do that at the very outset are now finding it very difficult to achieve), but to find a new equilibrium (in the vernacular, to learn how to live with it).
2. As always for complex socio-economic ecosystems, we don't yet know what such an equilibrium might look like. It can't be deduced, it has to be discovered. Myriad individual adaptations/experiments are a normal part of such a discovery process, but there is a major problem...
3. ... in that central govt seems intent on disrupting the adaptive processes, using its coercive powers to impose its own views of how things should be done. In so acting, Leviathan hinders rather than helps adaptation & the discovery of a new, workable equilibrium.
4. Pol Econ 101: Coercion is inimical to innovation: it disempowers, de-moralises and demotivates.
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