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Quotation of the Day

Posted: 26 Jul 2021 01:45 AM PDT
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is from page 113 of the profound 1976 Vol. II (“The Mirage of Social
Justice”) of F.A. Hayek’s trilogy, Law, Legislation, and Liberty:

There are, in the last resort, no economic ends. The economic efforts of
the individuals as well as the services which the market order renders to
them, consist in an allocation of means for the competing ultimate purposes
which are always non-economic. The task of all economic activity is to
reconcile the competing ends by deciding for which of them the limited
means are to be used. The market order reconciles the claims of the
different non-economic ends by the only know process that benefits all
without, however, assuring that the more important comes before the less
important, for the simple reason that there can exist in such a system no
single ordering of needs.




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The UCLA School and Property Rights

Posted: 25 Jul 2021 04:42 PM PDT
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Some Covid Links

Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:04 PM PDT
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From Emory University: COVID-19 survivors may possess wide-ranging
resistance to the disease. (HT Martin Kulldorff)

Daniel Hannan continues to write insightfully, wisely, and humanely about
Covid-19 restrictions. A slice:

A nightclub should have the right to insist on vaccine certificates; but it
should be under no legal obligation to do so. The default assumption for an
open society should be that each club (and each cruise ship and each church
and so on) can decide what, if any, measures to put in place. The state
needs an overwhelming reason to override ownership rights. A vague sense of
“better safe than sorry” does not constitute such a reason.

Also continuing to write insightfully, wisely, and humanely about Covid
restrictions is Janet Daley. A slice:

On the face of it, this looks like another chapter in the modern struggle
of totalitarianism versus liberty. But it is more than a constitutional
argument between free political systems and despotism. Those of us who are
determined to be free – and believe that this is a rational choice – must
be aware that even in mature, stable democracies, there is a deep and
probably inextinguishable longing to have one’s choices controlled and
limited by authority, to be absolved from responsibility, to be protected
from the consequences of individual actions. A successful public messaging
campaign turned that ambivalence into a degree of compliance over Covid
rules which has shocked many British commentators but what is most
remarkable is how unsophisticated the basic appeal remains: how easy it is
to persuade people that they have unleashed vengeful dark forces which must
be appeased.

This fear is at the heart of every form of neurotic anxiety and those who
are prey to it as individuals (often the most intelligent and sensitive)
can incorporate it into belief systems and public policies with the best of
motives and little self-awareness: the urge to control others is as much a
product of fear as the desire to be controlled. Put in political terms, an
authoritarianism that presents itself as benign can be more invidious than
a murderous tyranny because the case for overthrowing it seems so much less
urgent and the pretext for maintaining it so apparently virtuous. What this
version of it rules out is the possibility of constructive, reasonable
discussion about how terrible consequences might be averted through
innovation, discovery, experiment and cooperative effort – all the things
that free people engage in when they are not scared out of their wits, or
depressed beyond the point of reason.

Toby Green and Jay Bhattacharya explain that lockdowns are killers in the
global south. Heres their conclusion:

If lockdowns are the cause of this terrible carnage, as we maintain, and
they are ineffective in preventing the direct harm from the virus, then we
should eschew them as a pandemic tactic.

Martin Kulldorff says that the deranged lockdown in Sydney should end now.

Heres Annabel Fenwick Elliott:

Many times during this pandemic, I’ve wondered why people aren’t panicking
enough. Not about Covid (there’s more than enough of that hysteria to go
around); rather the alarming level of control we still find ourselves under
in the face of such a disproportionate threat. Caught in a cycle of abuse,
each time the public is awarded even a sliver of freedom, they are too
giddy with gratitude to look up and see the larger storm clouds gather.

She also reports this appalling result of Covid Derangement Syndrome:
Australia has already announced that even after its entire population is
inoculated, it won’t be opening its borders to international travel.




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