Bonus Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 83 of Scott Atlas’s hot-off-the-press 2021 book, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID From Destroying America:

Reminiscent of stock market frenzies, esoteric technical terms that had formerly been unknown to the public like “contact tracing” now became common parlance. Testing for this virus had turned into a national, indeed, international obsession. And to me, that obsession was not just misguided, it was harmful, creating more fear, more frenzy, more irrational policies.