Saturday, May 23, 2020

Silent Spring - 2020

The last 4+ months have provided a fair amount of persuasive evidence that a fully-centralized “universal national health” scheme would be a fiasco in modern America.
That’s because the people running it would be the same kinds of bureaucrats and political functionaries that we’ve witnessed running government agencies like CDC, and leading our large cities and even some of our largest States. 
Unprepared, confused, slow to respond, and ultimately dictatorial.
There is no reason to believe bureaucrats and politicians who run a national health scheme would perform or behave any differently. 
Even the most rabid supporters of national health care must now deal with the implications of  declining public trust in big government.  Certainly the decline is not all because of coronavirus.  And certainly China or The World Health Organization did not help. But China and WHO are political and bureaucratic, after all.   
Regardless, coronavirus required American experts to give timely, correct advice to our government leaders, and required those leaders to make sensible and practical decisions.  Many took too long.  Many went too wrong.  And too many people died.
I expect public trust in big government will not begin to recover until Americans begin to forget the panic and death  over the past 145 days or so. 
Meanwhile, it's a silent spring.
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