The college football fans that beat COVID and the experts that couldn ’t

BY ANISH KOKA The COVID pandemic was supposed to herald the end of the idea that a smaller government is a better government. The experts who desperately seek to be in charge of a sprawling bureaucratic state told us that it was only a powerful central authority that could do what was needed to safeguard individual liberties at a time when a highly contagious respiratory virus was spreading across the globe. New Zealand may have imposed draconian policies that did not even allow its own citizens to return, but scenes of cheering unmasked New Zealanders stood in sharp contrast to empty seats in American stadiums when teams were allowed to play. If only US politicians possessed the iron will of New Zealand premier Jacinda Arden, Americans too could have ‘freedom’. But in so many ways, the New Zealand example demonstrates the utter foolishness and shortsightedness of the central planners that seized control globally. A year after New Zealand took their victory lap COVID arrived in New Zealand and a very much masked Prime Minister noted that “very soon we will all know people who have Covid-19 or we will potentially get it ourselves” Suddenly it was NewZealanders that were now almost completely vaccinated (with a vaccine developed and tested in America) that were anxious, and the populations hardened by living through the inevitable viral waves that were filling stadiums. It turned out to be American college football fans, generally not known ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy College Football New Zealand Source Type: blogs