Unless we just decide to forget, historians will look back in astonishment.
Healthcare spending declined in a pandemic.
People were blocked from their houses of worship.
Choirs couldn’t sing.
Drones flew the skies to ferret out and report house parties.
Rental cars were fumigated with something.
Crossing a state line meant mandatory two week quarantines.
Dentistry was largely banned.
Forget elective surgeries. They were banned.
And for months, in most parts of the country, from mid-March to about June 2020 if not longer, getting a haircut was illegal. It was a result of disease panic for sure but more. Governments decided that they knew the risks better than people, and so would not allow people to make their own choices.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
