Tom Woods on the use of hand sanitizer

You know all that mad disinfecting everyone has been doing?  You'll never guess. It's pointless. 

Even the Washington Post, in an article last week called "We Are Over-Cleaning in Response to COVID-19," wrote: "We don't have a single documented case of COVID-19 transmission from surfaces.  Not one. So why, then, are we spending a small fortune to deep-clean our offices, schools, subways, and buses?"  Meanwhile, though, lots of restaurants are still using disposable menus.  Now that's what you call not following the science. 

And now here's the problem.  We know surfaces aren't the issue, and that we're wasting enormous time and resources pointlessly deep-cleaning.  The reason we're still doing it is that the general public is still in panic mode, even after all we now know.  And because the public, convinced it's "listening to the science," is in fact not following the science at all.  So when you endure some pointless practice here and there, whose only effect is to cause you pain or at least serious inconvenience, it's very often not because a private entity seriously wants to engage in it.  It's because they have to cater to hysterics who don't know anything.  

This isn't just a matter of the government.  It's public opinion that's making the craziness possible.

~ Tom Woods, December 16, 2020