Dear Washington Post Editorial Board, the Experts Were the Crisis In 2020

Real Clear Markets ^ | 4/30/23 | John Tamny

[CFW]

"On the field of war what is at stake is the thing that matters most to any man - the saving of his own skin.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, p. 889

The quote from Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a useful way to begin addressing the Washington Post editorial board’s confident assertion that “’A collective national incompetence in government’” was at the root of the U.S.’s alleged failure vis-à-vis the coronavirus in 2020. According to the Post quoting from a recently released report (“Lessons from the Covid War”), “The United States started out ‘with more capabilities than any other country in the world,’ but “it ended up with 1 million dead.” Were he still around, one guesses Tolstoy would mock the conceit of the Post’s editorialists.

That’s the case because “the thing that matters most to any man” is “the saving of his own skin.” That this needs to even be said speaks to how wrongheaded the Post’s editorial board’s approach to the virus was, and still is. It implies we have dead because government didn’t act properly, as though free people eager to live were unequal to a virus that the right kind of collective governmental action was more than equal to. Ok, but what was government going to do? Better yet, what if the virus had struck in 2015 when Barack Obama was still in the White House. What would he have done? Would he have instructed a virus that was spreading faster than the flu to take a “time out”?

[CFW]

The "experts" have been wrong on almost every issue over at least the past two decades. Two issues on which they were majorly wrong has been Covid (and the Vaccines), and Inflation.

[dila813]

No mention that they used the crisis to change voting laws and delayed the vaccine the release due to politics