Thread by @saifedean

Anarchy in public health!

My latest seminar podcast reflects on 1 year of coronahysteria & 1 week of covid-19:

How would a free market handle respiratory illnesses?

Do public health measures work better than individual precautions?

Listen & subscribe:
saifedean.com/podcast/32-ana…

My personal experience with Covid was a 20-30% loss in productivity & a 20-30% increase in sleep, for about a week. By simply doing the opposite of everything public health authorities recommend, my immune system was able to shake this off easily.

The idea that the world needed to be shut down for
this disease always sounded insane to me, but it appeared in an entirely new light of stupidity after experiencing the illness & seeing the overwhelming evidence of how good metabolic health is key to fighting it off.

So in this seminar, we compare the effectiveness of individual interventions, like eating well and taking cheap drugs recommended by many doctors, to public health recommendations of lockdowns, economic suicide, & eating industrial waste.

What can Mises' work on the limitations of central planning tell us about public health bureaucracies, and their inevitable & predictable failures? All health choices involve trade-offs & calculations, why would central planners know how to perform these for you better than you?

We are also rejoined by @PhilippBagus, who discusses a fascinating recent paper of his on the political economy of mass hysteria.

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