A certain Brazilian SubStack blogger who REALLY wants Ron DeSantis to be the next president of the United States has some hilariously stupid defenses of libertarian responses to COVID-19 in our comments 
The my favorite is that because it has a Democratic governor he uses Michigan as a gotcha, while obviously not realizing that Michigan currently has...the same laissez-faire policies he favors, with absolutely disastrous results.
Needless to say, if you compare DeSantis and Abbott to COMPETENT Democratic governors like Brown and Inslee, the results are much worse with death rates more than twice as high, because the libertarian response is in fact bad covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
And of course the idea that "lockdowns" (by which he seems to mean any anti-COVID measures with negative economic effects, as virtually nowhere in the US has done actual Italy-style lockdowns) can't work also requires ignoring Korea, Australia, NZ, etc. etc. So silly.
And needless to say, the problem in CA has been too much DeSantisism, not too little.
https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1385662380739371008
In related news, here's Glenn on with another libertarian named Glenn arguing that favoring majority rule (as opposed to massively overrepresenting rural white voters) is "tyrannical"
https://twitter.com/Nitzky89/status/1385630634102693889
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