In days gone by I often used the endless myriad of legalistic restrictions, which comprises much of modern environmentalis m these days, to show my students any number of real-life examples on how foolish, counterproducti ve, and sometimes even deadly, such legalism actually is since such laws not only fail to stop pollution, but actually, in many cases, actually engenders it even more. There is an underappreciate d law of diminishing returns with regard to laws and legalism that few bother to notice. In fact, one could easily argue this is precisely its problem. The more laws there are, and the more totalitarian they become, the less effective those laws are. They also become acutely more expensive with little, no, or even worse benefits. Thanks to the last few months, I now have at my disposal any number of medical legalistic examples now as well to demonstrate the very same truth and reality that is particularly acute with regard to what happened at nursing homes over the last few months as many thousands of elderly died there from the coronavirus - a number that is so large it is actually being undercounted and covered up by those who knew what was going on.

By law in states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and which is apparently still at work in states like Minnesota and Michigan, recovering COVID patients released from hospitals, but who were still contagious, were sent directly to nursing homes – to facilities that really could not handle such cases in the first place, and then secondly, exposed to great danger the most vulnerable group of folks one can possibly imagine. In this way, thousands upon thousands upon thousands died – by law – and legalism was the primary executioner. Even the scene caught on camera in Michigan where a 20-year old repeatedly hit an elderly patient in the face and head at a nursing home over and over again, was sent there because he had COVID. Such are tragic examples of how legalism indeed leads to madness, death, and destruction. Legalism did not make people safe, but endangered many more thousands of people than necessary.

No small amount of the recent panic caused by this virus scare has been pumped up by the death toll counts being tallied in such northern tier states that is directly attributable to these laws. Indeed, Dr. Rand Paul, Kentucky Congressman who himself is also a real doctor, pointed out to Dr. Fauchi a few weeks ago that outside of the northeast, the actual data is telling us this flu season in America was better than last year’s flu season. He also said this not from an ivory tower point of view like Dr. Fauchi in D.C. Dr. Rand Paul himself contracted the coronavirus, recovered from it, and then later helped COVID patients in hospitals who were hit hard with it. In other words, legalism has killed many thousands and thousands of people this coronavirus flu season, and it promises to do even more if the lockdowns continue as other medical, economic and personal problems at home like suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, sex abuse, domestic abuse, etc. begin to take center stage.

Posted by: Bill H at May 24, 2020 04:47 PM (vMiSr)

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at May 25, 2020 08:07 AM (dXrrT)

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