Jeffrey Tucker on mass panics and rationalizing cruelty

At the end of every mass panic, people work very hard to find ways to justify whatever cruelty, barbarism, and brutality they perpetrated or justified.  Any excuse that comes along.  That's already happening now.  It will be years before honesty returns.

~ Jeffrey Tucker, tweet, April 6, 2020

Surgeon General on the coronavirus: "This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment"

This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized.  It’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that...  This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.

~ Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Fox News Sunday, April 5, 2020

Dr. Tom Cowan on the authoritative response to the coronavirus

We can't live the rest of our lives in this kind of state of fear and hatred...  This is not good for us.  It is not good for everybody to be pushed and isolated, their only contact with life is through a screen.  That is not the world that I want to live in.

~ Dr. Tom Cowan, "Understanding our current health crisis," 1:12:30 mark, Wise Traditions, April 3, 2020

Becky Quick: "I'm 100% in equities" (2020)

I’m 100% in equities. … You’re never going to make enough money if you have 40% of your money in bonds.

~ Becky Quick, CNBC anchor, "‘I’m 100% in equities. … You’re never going to make enough money if you have 40% of your money in bonds,’" CNBC, December 27, 2020

Antony Mueller on government shutdowns to "save lives"

In order to justify their draconian measures, governments claim that their policy is about “saving lives." Yet there is no way “to save lives” for good. The best we can do is to gain a little more time to live and to avoid an early death. Therefore, the question is not whether to save lives or not, but by which measures we will gain more years or may lose time to live. When we close down the economy, those who thereby avoid contagion will gain a few more years. On the other hand, because of the shutdown, millions of people will lose many years of their lifetime. Make your choice.

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Our wants are always manifold and therefore require a trade-off. The idea of “saving lives” as an absolute good is absurd and can only gain such prominence in a society that has lost its touch with the elementary truths of human existence.

~ Antony Mueller, "Fooled," LewRockwell.com, April 2, 2020

Pink Floyd's 1980 song "Mother" anticipates 2020 nanny state and Covid-19 panic

First chorus:

Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.
Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you.
Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama's gonna keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby,
Of course mama's gonna help build the wall.

Second chorus:

Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama's won’t let anyone dirty get through.
Mama's gonna wait up until you come in.
Mama will always find out where you’ve been.
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooh babe, ooh babe, ooh babe,
You’ll always be baby to me.

~ Pink Floyd, "Mother," 1980

Ronald Reagan on government

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

~ Ronald Reagan