sábado, 2 de maio de 2020

Uma catástrofe programada

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” - Edward Bernays
As libertarians, we’re in a meme war with these forces of authori…
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Além de lockdown e liberação

Escape your reactionary binaries: “The first and paramount thing is to prevent health care facilities—hospitals and nursing homes—from becoming superspreaders themselves. Even in the absence of a pandemic, patients pick up 1.7 million infections in American hospitals annually and 99,000 of them die.
“Jonathan Tepper, founder of Variant Perception, points out in a deeply researched article that in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the disease in China, around 41 percent of the…
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Teoria de conspiração

Murray Rothbard: Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and…
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The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited | Murray N. Rothbard
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The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited | Murray N. Rothbard
Murray Rothbard writes: Anytime that a hard-nosed analysis is put forth of who our rulers are, of how their political and economic interests interlock, it is invariably denounced by Establishment liberals and conservatives (and even by many libertarians) as a "conspiracy theory of history," "paranoi...

Modelo sueco

Those around the world who have supported communist-style state lockdowns, and who have endured them for many weeks, must be seething and bitter at the example of Sweden, whose approach to the CCP virus is increasingly coming to be seen as the correct way to have gone about things.
With politicians in places like the UK saying such ludicrous things as "We have come this far, so we must continue", on the topic of lockdowns, the embarrassment of having Sweden right up there on…
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Estratégia sueca funciona

More than anything, this conundrum speaks to the relationship between people and their governments. Indeed, it is the social contract between government and its citizens which forms the core of the country’s policy formation. The idea that the choice of lockdown policy is a straight trade-off between lives and economy is a false dichotomy which ignores many concomitant variables and factors which are at play.
“I don’t think it was in terms of economy versus a health of peopl…
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O bloqueio foi um erro

"The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies"