Why I Believe that Covid Derangement Syndrome Is Real

American Institute for Economic Research ^ | February 23, 2021 | Donald J. Boudreaux

[CheshireTheCat]

....One doesn’t have to have Covid in order to have a life that’s meaningful and to suffer a death that’s mournful. Yet most of the public, media, and governments have reacted to Covid as if the only deaths that matter are Covid deaths – as if the only lives that matter are the lives of people with Covid – as if the only risk that matters and, hence, the only risk worth reducing is the risk of suffering from Covid.

This lack of proportion – this sudden ignorance that our lives are inescapably filled with many different risks that must be traded off against each other – this treatment of Covid deaths as being categorically worse than are non-Covid deaths – all combined with a blind faith that politicians and bureaucrats will use vast powers wisely, prudently, and effectively – is what I call “Covid Derangement Syndrome.”

I believe this syndrome to be real and deserving of a name that grabs attention. Such attention-grabbing is warranted, because I further believe that this syndrome poses a dangerous risk to humanity that dwarfs the risk posed by SARS-CoV-2....

[CheshireTheCat]

If you want to see something truly frightening, see this:

Life – “Life” – Under Covid Derangement Syndrome

"How can anyone look at this photo from a high school in Washington state and not immediately realize that society’s response to Covid-19 is deranged? That it’s derangedly disproportionate?"

https://cafehayek.com/2021/02/life-life-under-covid-derangement-syndrome.html

[TexasKamaAina]

See my tagline.

[CheshireTheCat]

So true of the ‘rona.

[Secret Agent Man]

thismis actually end times derangement syndrome

precursor to whats coming

[Slyfox]

The Good Lord said that a great delusion would come upon them and it would be so strong that it would even effect the elect.

I think of that every time I go somewhere and I see an entire sea of masks.

We are there, and them is us.

[joma89]

There are simply too many leftist democrats in society.

[Malsua]

From the article CDS leads to:

>>Overestimated Dangers of Covid
>>Panic

Which leads to people driving around in cars by themselves with a face diaper on.

This was on my trip home last night. Driving like he’d been pithed.
https://youtu.be/ln08kuWGGac

[FamiliarFace]

Here’s a clickable link for the one in your post.
https://cafehayek.com/2021/02/life-life-under-covid-derangement-syndrome.html

[central_va]

LOL!!!

[FamiliarFace]

It’s so sad.

[FamiliarFace]

It looks like the man veered completely into the median lane at the end. Where are the cops when you need them?

[trebb]

No surprise that Kozak, our resident terror-monger, hasn’t weighed in....he’s probably in a dither because Garth Brooks’ wife has tested positive...ironic how they feel the need to sensationalize by listing anyone with a large amount of public recognition and how few of them there really are to list...

[Maskot]

Kozak will never reply. He lacks the intelligence to dispute facts and only deals in fear porn. He’s no doubt suffering from lack of oxygen due to 5+ mask wearing, you know, to keep him “safe”.

Although I don’t understand how he couldn’t be safe already since he lives in the basement…

[Malsua]

It looks like the man veered completely into the median lane at the end. Where are the cops when you need them?

He was all over. Forward, back, weaving left, right, almost hitting the barrier, riding up within a few feet of me, then dropping back. At one point, there was an opening. I...ahem...goosed it. I have a 300hp vehicle that gets up into confiscation speed pretty quick and I was there. Notice he catches right back up.

It was setting off my road rage as there's nowhere for me to go, as I wasn't holding up the lane. Except when I passed in the right lane, there was someone in front of me the entire time and we were doing at least 10 over the whole time.

[FamiliarFace]

His behavior made me wonder if he was in a rage. I take it you have a rear facing camera installed? I’ve only seen ones for the front (not that I’ve looked into them much).

[Malsua]

I have a Blackvue DR900s-2ch dash cam. It’s 4k front and 1080p rear. I was going to inset the front in the video and put a piece of the audio track under the whole thing so you don’t hear the squeaky noise. It was getting late(for me) last night so I just rendered it as it was and uploaded it.

I’ve been running dash cams since that Russian Meteor in 2013. Funny, I’ve actually caught two meteor incidents on my cams so far. They are both on my youtube channel, you have to search past the BBQ videos :)

[glennaro]

Thank you for linking to this insightful and thought-provoking commentary.

I've found the authors and their commentaries at AIER to be consistently brilliant, timely and useful ... among the very best available anywhere. Cheers!

[FamiliarFace]

Thank you, I’ll have to look into that one.

[trebb]

I agree - he has to be deranged is he got tiered of being slammed for his responses and decided he needed to begin his own thread to demonstrate how deranged he is - claims to be a doctor and I feel sorry for his patients if that’s true - probably elderly with few options...