The expert class embraced the failed "zero covid" plan early, claiming that covid will be eradicated if only we "lockdown harder." This later morphed into "covid will be eradicated with more vaccines."
If a business raises the price of its goods and consumers (and consumers pay it) we will have here a specific price increase but not a general increase in prices. That's not inflation.
One of the most blatant examples of this non sequitur occurs in discussions of the "free rider problem" and the alleged solution of government provision of so-called public goods.
