More craziness outside the U.S., but signs of hope here?

Written by Tom Woods on November 8, 2021. Posted in Current News

In the United States we have some states we can be fairly confident will not return to lockdown or the other useless approaches to “mitigation” anytime soon, and then we also have jurisdictions that are introducing vaccine mandates to punish perceived political enemies.

(Since any ability the vaccines have to stop the spread have dissipated after two to three months, there is no scientific or public health reason for vaccine mandates, so punishing perceived enemies is the only explanation I can come up with for the policy.)

So I think I have a handle on the U.S. situation. I may not like it, but I understand it and what’s likely to happen in the coming months.

But I’m also keeping an eye on other countries.

Iceland has been especially interesting. At the beginning Iceland did well and everyone praised them. Why, people must have listened to their wise public health officials!

The hospitality industry, which is central to Iceland’s economy, was devastated, but at least COVID was kept to a minimum, they’ll say.

Well, if you can believe it, Iceland is heading back into restrictions again, even though at 99 deaths per million it has one of the best records of any country in the world, and even though close to 90 percent of the eligible public is fully vaccinated.

A reader writes:

We reported our highest daily case number since the start of the pandemic today. 167 infections, only 32 of those unvaccinated (likely mostly children). The number can be multiplied by 1.000 to get equivalent US numbers.

90 percent of the eligible population is [fully] vaccinated today. It is universally acknowledged that the vaccines are ineffective at stopping the spread but may reduce it somewhat and provide some protection against serious illness. Furthermore the state epidemiologist has acknowledged that the only way to end the pandemic is for the nation to acquire natural immunity by widespread infection.

However since the vaccines “just don’t work that well” and our healthcare system is unable to deal with the effects of “uncontrolled spread” he is planning to somehow fine tune the restrictions to keep infection rates at 70 per day until we reach herd immunity. (It would take decades at that rate, but of course the entire premise is ridiculous.)

Politically this is instituted by the left-green health minister and supposedly the conservative party is not too happy about it. A new government is in the process of forming and something may change after that. However given the general mood here I’m not very optimistic that we will have our freedom back any time soon. It is widely understood that a lack of restrictions will mean the collapse of the entire health care system.

I responded: “So they’re just going to pretend Sweden doesn’t exist”? The reply:

The very few times it has been mentioned in the narrative, it is understood that they have a way more capable healthcare system, and can therefore handle all the covid patients. On the other hand our (state-run) healthcare system is incapable of handling as much as a large car accident or a flu season without them declarinag “emergency” and cancelling normal day to day operations.

So I think they are right about that, if we were to experience the same amount of population adjusted ICU patients as Sweden did at the height of the pandemic it would be a serious shitshow. We have 5 covid ICU patients currently and they are screaming that the system is collapsing.

So yeah, socialism.

It really is true: this ends when we make it end. If the Icelandic public doesn’t have the common sense to end the madness when their economy relies on the outside world, then nothing will change.

I personally believe that the only reason things aren’t worse in the United States is that we have a large number of people skeptical of the so-called “mitigation measures” and prepared to push back. Not as large as I’d like, but not nothing. According to Rasmussen, a majority of Americans (52%) support workers resisting vaccination demands.

I was surprised to learn (from someone inside the Tom Woods Show Elite) that Democrat Laura Kelly, governor of Kansas, opposes the federal vaccine mandate. Is she responding to the political winds?

The defeatist attitude I see from so many people these days is certainly understandable — a lot of horrific stuff is happening right now — but we can’t succumb to it.

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