mikedilger on Nostr: I personally believe that the government does have a role in preventing contagion, ...
I personally believe that the government does have a role in preventing contagion, just like they have a role in preventing crime and preventing war and preventing the risk of people who drive too fast. One person putting excessive risk on another against that other's will.... that is a valid purpose of government. Of course the specifics would be a mess to work out... how fast is driving too fast? how bad of a disease does it have to be for the government to quarantine you? how big of a gun is too big? The fact that I posit these questions means I'm not a minimalist libertarian/anarchist. It means I don't believe that we have as a species worked out how to co-exist in peace without some form of dominance hierarchy (government officials have power over plebians) oppressing us all. If you have worked out a better solution I'm all ears because government sucks compared to free markets.. But a lack of government sucks more.
What happened wrong with COVID was that they all over-reacted to a minor disease (because they secretly knew it was from weapons research and that freaked them out) and decided to coerce people to take a risky rapidly developed medical product.
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