From Tom Woods today (yeah, he's right, the hysterics won't follow the science (again) and keep sanitizing... smh):
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.
I knew there were a lot of Americans I had nothing in common with.
I had no idea how many Americans had a completely different definition of life from mine.
If I'm elderly and in a nursing home and cannot see or embrace anyone in my family, and I cannot socialize or do anything, please don't congratulate yourself for keeping me alive. Because you've already killed me.
We're being told that masks and social distancing will be necessary even after the vaccine. Are these people prepared to go along even with that?
Surely some will decide enough is enough. But who knows how many.
Some people are fighting back, like the coffee shop owner I interviewed on the Tom Woods Show yesterday [https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=83fdb74f6e&e=3a674ee7c3].
I'm doing what I can by spreading as much helpful and revealing information as possible.
Still, a lot of people are demoralized: how can this still be going on? How can anyone still think these alleged mitigation measures do anything but crush people's spirits?
Believe me, I get that.
Where I live (Florida), everything is open. But if I lived anywhere else, I'd be going out of my way to support businesses that refuse to comply. And although their number is smaller than we might hope, it's growing.