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69 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 4 Dec \ on: U.S. House COVID-19 REPORT: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward Politics_And_Law
I'm all for prosecuting Fauci, but I'm even more for prosecuting every authoritarian governor and mayor who extra-judicially deprived people of their rights en masse.
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I remember during covid trying to explain to people that they should be mad at themselves first. Anyone who supports giving health departments in cities and states the kind of power they have should take note. These are monopolies that are largely unaccountable. They made often stupid choices that affected everyone.
In a free market we could still have certification and accountability but rather than some bureaucrat having the power to shut down a place of business the public could read reports / reviews and make up their own minds. That's what freedom is. Not having no choice. Or having the choice of jail or compliance.
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For the first few weeks, at least where I lived, the pandemic response was an almost perfect illustration of how I would have described the ideal anarchist model.
Everyone was reading up on the issue and businesses were responding with their own measures to try and balance safety with remaining open. Some were requiring masks. Others were restricting shopper density, by having people wait outside. Most ramped up in store sanitation measures and installed protective dividers.
It was exactly why we would have told people that the government doesn't need to be in charge of this stuff. And then, of course, the government did get involved and made everything dramatically worse for everyone.
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truly.
STRAIGHT TO JAIL. No trial, no nothing... (oops!)
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Seems fair, considering they put millions of people under house arrest with no trial and no nothing.
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