No one - not even the most brilliant "experts" in the world - holds the foresight or wisdom to make such far-reaching decisions over the daily lives of ordinary people.
In his Nobel Prize Lecture in December 1974, world-renowned economist Friedrich A. Hayek condemned the economic theories that had, for generations, dominated global commerce (namely, the Keynesian school). In an excoriation of what he called the "pretense of exact knowledge."
Hayek issued a timeless warning against the "scientistic" approach to economic policy, that is, the habit of applying the immovable axioms of the hard sciences to the spontaneous fluctuations of the market, which he argued "will hardly ever be fully known or measurable."
Of course it's no secret just how out of touch the political class is from the headaches their policies inflict on the good, hardworking men and women of this country. But how much longer are we really prepared to tolerate their efforts to subdue our civil liberties and economic well-being? Will it really be (as they've promised us again and again) just a few more weeks when the virus is, according to their "expert" definition, "under control"?
"It's important to realize that if society meekly submits to an expert, and that expert is wrong, a great deal of harm may occur. One thing is for certain. We either believe in liberty in times of crisis, or we don't believe in liberty at all.
Rand Paul told that to Fauci.
Rand Paul told that to Fauci.
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