Question Fools Don’t Ask of ‘Experts’:
‘What Is the Price?’
Posted By: Judy W., 12/3/2022 6:04:01 AM
What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought? You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person wasn’t, you would dismiss him as a fool, and you would certainly never ask this person for advice about how to spend your money. Yet, for two years, that question—“What is the price?”—was avoided by virtually every political leader in the world as well as the vast majority of epidemiologists and physicians, journalists and editors, college presidents, deans, professors, and K-12 teachers. They never asked, “What is the price?” with regard to locking down businesses, schools,
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This is mostly true, but I'm surprised Prager leaves out something he often emphasizes elsewhere: evil. Many of the people in positions of authority profited greatly from the terrible policies, and most of them, I believe, knew the costs or had to work very hard to avoid knowing them.