What's the word for an economic system in which the government can artificially restrict a company's (or even an entire sector's) customer base at will?
Because it's not capitalism...
And, yes, we have regulatory oversight: FLSA, FCC, CPSC, EPA, etc... the list of regulatory agencies is extensive.
But what we're facing mass disruption of the most basic market forces using a flimsy justification that crumbles under the most superficial scrutiny...
Does removing people from the economy reduce the transmission of a primarily non-lethal virus? No.
So you can tell me this has been going on for years and there's truth in that...but this is a matter of scope, scale & lack of any reasonable explanation.
It's a paradigm shift.
Vaxx passports have been sold as the "key to reopening & restarting the economy"
(which, while obviously non-sensical, is at least consistent w/ a world in which the ACLU declares restrictions = freedom.)
In reality, they're economic Belladonna.
Why is there not more pushback?
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Yesterday, @Medium informed me via email that they were deleting my account for “elevated risk of potential harm to persons or public health”
The only piece I pub'd there in the last 9mo. was a narrative essay expressing shock at how we’ve treated children - 6w ago...
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And for that thoughtcrime, they are burning my books in the town square.
All my books.
Even the ones on parenting and autism and writing and health.
Medium thinks I am a dangerous dissident in need of silencing...
Understand I wasn’t cited for dispensing medical advice or ‘misinfo’ (which we know means inconvenient truths) like I was when they censored The Curve is Already Flat in April 2002.
This time, it was my opinions and morals that were deemed a risk to people or public health...
“Listen…there’s a new vaccine & it decreases your child’s risk from a disease w/ 99.9972% survival rate by .0027%. We also have zero data on long-term side effects (& not much on the short-term either.)”
What’s your reply?
I’ve yet to see anyone say “Sign my kid up!”
And that’s because when we’re thinking rationally, we don’t subject kids to a medical intervention that has almost no benefit and unknown costs.
This is what the precautionary principle *actually* looks like.
Cue all the contrarians saying “Sign my kid up!” 😂
What if we allow ourselves to entertain the possibility that the reason schools weren't a primary source of transmission is that kids were exposed & recovered long before we knew Covid was here & developed robust natural immunity, halting transmission...
If so, even when it was novel, kids weren't at serious risk from C19 & the symptoms were/are so non-specific, that it could've looked like any other bad cold/flu.
I believe my kids all had it back in Jan 2020 & I've heard countless similar stories... medium.com/morozko-method…
Which makes some sense given the rational position on C19 is certainly not the status-seeking, socially-validated one.
At the same time, the final split was so strong that - coupled with some of the comments - I wondered if eschewing status itself may be a status play...
Status has value. Empirically.
Is Rational Twitter
* ignorant or in denial,
* bad at it,
* opting out, or
* are we playing our own internal status game?