Thread by @Gurdur

1/n A while back I went to the trouble of looking through an Objectivist (Ayn Rand type) article on a response to the #COVID19 pandemic. I looked at each section, and detailed some large deficiencies

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1321110177505050625

2/ I also looked at a different libertarian detailed 'response' to the pandemic. Unfortunately the author of that flailed around & abused me in an empty way, rather than dealing.

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1321252548129525760

3/ Couple of days ago, I criticised the US Libertarian Party for once more simply ignoring social response to the pandemic, only bitching about individual rights. I lost a tweep over that, who basically told me, "Educate yourself!", except as already clear, I have. Deal with it.

4/ if this is your *total* response to the pandemic, then maybe you're just irrelevant to anything. Seriously; I happen to think the libertarians have a ton of good points, then they ruin it all all over again, so habitually.

https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1333130365612019715

5/ But now, this. As all long-term tweeps know, I'm very aggro about inconsistencies, favoritism, any illogical or deeply unhelpful quarantine responses.
But this, by @JD_Tuccille, is mere hidden, party-partisan shilling for no quarantine measures at all.
reason.com/2020/11/28/pan…

6/ @JD_Tuccille cites Ferguson as, "Ferguson's above-the-law attitude is common among those who feel entitled to write regulations and impose penalties on others for violating them", except Ferguson HAD NO such power to write regulations or impose penalties.

7/ @JD_Tuccille cites Iain Duncan Smith, and quotes, "It risks undermining the Government's lockdown message." In DECEMBER. Does neither @JD_Tuccille nor IDS want to mention the more recent Dominic Cummings, who WAS in a position to write regulations??

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1333899924551979008

8/ @JD_Tuccille then cites some Democratic politicians in the States who were arrogantly hypocritical. Nice cherry-picking work, but the entire thing is, only denouncing all and any quarantine measures, and using populist emo to pretend to be on the side of the 'Little People'

9/ It's all a huge pity. The US libertarians consign themselves to always being the bridesmaid, never the bride. They have no social response to the pandemic to offer, only more endless bitching which too often just devolves into sociopathy.
Don't demand my sympathy for that.

Different Ferguson. The Ferguson in question here is Neil Ferguson, epidemiologist in the UK, who annoyed the government by pointing out, March 16, that UK ICU's would be overwhelmed if the virus was allowed to run riot.

https://twitter.com/Justin420451408/status/1333900875656466434

As already said, I personally am very big on detailing idiocies and inconsistencies. Trust me, search my tweets, I've put the boot into WHO, the CDC, and even Pelosi (re Birx). But one lot's asininities don't excuse another lot's cretinisms.

https://twitter.com/Justin420451408/status/1333898621331320835

That's a very short way of evading all points, but sure, I've already gathered from others today that it must be Emo Week over there, so sloganize, sloganize, sloganize!

https://twitter.com/JD_Tuccille/status/1333916926054023168