Monday December 27, 2021
“Look, there is no federal solution,” Biden said Monday, according to a transcript of a conversation he had with a group of governors. “This gets solved at a state level.”
Thursday December 30, 2021
Positive Covid tests, 630,000+
Prior High, 320,000+ August 2021
On Monday, Biden officially threw in the towel on all his campaign promises regarding Covid. He gave up, declaring his self-defeat. It’s not like he tried that hard. He promised greatly expanded testing on the campaign trail, nixed a major plan to ramp up tests back in October, and today signed a deal to build a testing kit factory, that won’t be finished for three years. Incompetence doesn’t even begin to describe this. I personally am not grieving Biden’s huge lapse in performance. He’s finally come halfway to where he should have come on January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day. The only flaw in his defeatist revelation is that he passed the buck to governors who are equally hopeless in fixing Covid. He’s handing his defeat to them to experience for themselves unless they enact a plan pointing in the direction of the real solution, something resembling a ‘free market’ or philosophy of individual choice and personal freedom.
Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem and a few other governors took a different road that at first earned them withering scorn by the hard left and in the end, their states have fared far better. Why? They didn’t invest themselves in failed measures. Like it or not, Covid presents several brutal realities that fly in the face of heavy-handed tactics by government. Most masks don’t prevent transmission, so mask mandates don’t work. Social distancing was stupid and is now debunked. While vaccines effectively mitigate the severity of Covid in most people, we now know they don’t prevent transmission or contraction of Covid by the vaccinated. Vaccine mandates force social resistance [what part of ‘I don’t want the government dictating what I have to do’ do you not understand?] and most critically, send a much larger number of asymptomatic people with Covid out and among others to contract the virus. Virtually every mandate made by government has made Covid worse and here we are today at 630,000+ infections just today. With the state governors mostly just replicating what Joe Biden tried to do, they too will come to a place where they finally delegate Covid down to where it should have been all along, the individual.
What is a free market and personal responsibility approach? It’s what will happen anyway after state governments have also given up. It goes like this:
First it will be imperative to eliminate Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC, from any policy positions. They cannot be trusted to present science. Both are political operatives/appointees carrying out a political strategy. That is not science. Mitigating Covid will require that only unfiltered real science be conveyed to the public who will need to make informed choices. ‘Experts’ have now killed millions of people.
Disseminate real science to the public because they will be responsible for making their own health choices such as whether and when to wear a mask, get vaccinated, self-isolate, or go visit grandma. They will be responsible for any consequences to themselves, their own health, and the health of their community. In a free-market health approach without government compulsion, they will no longer be just checking boxes; they will calculate their own personal risks and do what’s best. If someone gets an intestinal virus, they naturally self-isolate from as many loved ones as possible until they’re better in order to spare others from their discomfort. Why would they have done any differently with Covid?
Governors Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem took this approach with their citizens and their states prospered and are healthier than blue states, municipalities, and institutions, even ones that are fully vaccinated. Was there sickness? Of course. Were there mortalities? Of course. We finally know why they ultimately fared better. Real contraction of Covid among both the vaccinated and unvaccinated confers far better protection from subsequent transmission. Allowing younger healthier people to contract Covid serves a broader purpose in the population, hastening real herd immunity while more vulnerable people take extra precautions.
On the critical question of whether to vaccinate or not, leaving the choice to the individual changes the incentive. Shall they simply obey a mandate or do they make a serious consideration about their personal chances of hospitalization and death. If its death they’re considering, there are no do-overs, no second chances. Freed from government coercion, that leaves themselves, with one incentive, to make the best possible decision for their own health. What about thinking of others? We’ve come all this way, framing it as a matter of extreme selfishness, only to find out that the vaccines don’t prevent transmissions or contribute to herd immunity anyway.
After Biden’s colossal failure, we can decide to extend this thing another year or many years until our governors also throw in the towel as well. Or we can change the incentive now, start allowing the free flow of real science, stop the political manipulation which is of course ultimately boomeranging back and hitting left leaning jurisdictions disproportionately hard, or we can declare that we’re going to go where we’ll end up eventually, personal responsibility.