Medicine is clashing with the Social Darwinism of the economist's "creative destruction" based on the "survival of the fittest". Competition is good for it lets the strong survive and the weak perish. To intervene against this is a crime against nature
Underlying this is the dogma that the "invisible hand" of the natural processes of the market drive it towards "self-regulating equilibrium" created by Darwinian forces of market competition. Quote from Prof Nouriel Roubini: Crisis Economics ISBN: 9780241956922 
Market intervention is thus an unnatural perversion that undermines the invisible hand of the processes driving the market towards self-regulating equilibrium. It undermines the survival of the fittest to destroy the "wealth of nations"
As @Nouriel says, the whole story of invisible forces driving the market to self-regulating equilibrium is a fairy tale, but a dangerous one that is being used to destroy the economy by letting COVID rip in order to reach "equilibrium" through "creative destruction"
Not only do we have the irony of non-scientists lecturing us biologists about evolutionary theory, but they also forget that the medical world has long ago experimented with Social Darwinism: forced sterilisation & euthanasia programmes. Cf Prof C Browning penguin.com.au/books/the-orig…
Aktion T4 started in hospitals. Nurses, social workers identified "Asoziale" (mentally handicapped etc) who were euthanised to "improve" society. As it got bigger they started to use lethal gas pumped through disguised showerheads to kill them in ever larger numbers
To process the large volume of corpses produced by Aktion T4, they set up crematoria to burn the bodies to hide the evidence. Families became suspicious when they all got the same letter saying their family member died unexpectedly
As evolutionary biologist, Stephen Jay Gould pointed out, Darwin wanted nothing to do with such political vulgarisation of his ideas amazon.com.au/Pandas-Thumb-R…
The old monolithic dogma of "survival of the fittest" was always pushed more Wallace et alia, not Darwin. Evolutionary biology today, due to advances in genetics, epigenetics & proteinomics, has returned to the nuanced pluralism of Charles Darwin himself newscientist.com/article/mg2473…
It is especially grating that these economists who base their fairy tales of self-regulatory systems ruled by the creative destruction of the survival of the fittest know as much about modern evolutionary theory as anti-vaxxers about immunology #pseudoscience
In 2019 a Nobel Prize was awarded for the novelty of "evidence-based economics" using RCTs! Economists are where we were back in the 1960s in first trying RCTs. It's still an eminence-based discipline based on pure pseudo-science...like Aktion T4 opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…
Economics is the last bastion of Social Darwinism, pushing the dogma of laissez-faire ideology placing Faith in the invisible hand of self-regulatory forces working via market competition and which mustn't be undermined by intervention
This neoliberalism economic dogma of "laissez-faire" noninterventionism is being used to allow vast numbers of people to die unnecessarily by letting rip with the law of the jungle to kill the vulnerable. How is this truly any better than the Aktion T4 euthanasia programme?
When challenged about their inhumanity they simply rationalise it by saying tough times demand tough decisions to save the wealth of nations by allowing natural market forces to kick in. No supporting zombie businesses: let nature rip and take its course
Those participating in the Aktion T4 euthanasia programme would have rationalised it in exactly the same way. No point in keeping all of these useless ("Asoziale") people alive in institutional care. It's tough but we need to do this for the good of society
The term "creative destruction" is often used as a euphemism to justify the improvements in efficiency from laying off staff. It is only a small step to using it to rationalise letting COVID rip to unburden society of the vulnerable holding back the economy
Just as intervention to reduce unemployment is condemned as undermining natural competitive market forces, so too is intervention to save lives considered a violation of the market's natural self-regulating equilibrium. One must let nature take its course towards equilibrium
Rationalisation of the liquidation of vast numbers of people is part of the strategic planning of the Endlösung of which Aktion T4 formed a blueprint. Words like killing are replaced by bureaucratic euphemisms like Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) amazon.com.au/Architects-Ann…
Ali and Heim do well to get into the heads of population planners who considered it their duty to reshape the world by pseudo-scientific rationalisations that condoned the murder of millions, all based upon a crude Social Darwinism that called for the survival of the fittest
It is easy to understand how objection to allowing COVID to rip and kill the vulnerable are considered sentimental, based on a failure to grasp the objective need to let cooly rip with the law of competition to liquidate the weak so that the strong can live on in freedom
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