Adolescent Libertarianism and the Confusion of License with Liberty

Ron Paul should rename his Campaign For Liberty, "The Campaign For Stupidity."

Paul finds public health mandates to restrict movement and mandate vaccines during a pandemic completely illegitimate. No matter that the Covid vaccines have saved millions of lives, letting everybody do whatever they felt like doing would have been even better, yielding even greater mass deaths than the million plus we have seen so far (in the United States) but preserving individual "liberty" (actually license).

The Great Barrington declaration urging an end to lockdowns, (which cell phone data show never were much complied with) was a campaign to essentially do nothing while the pandemic raged. One of its authors ended up writing for the Epoch Times, a lunatic anti-Communist paper.

The Campaign For Liberty finds fault with the government for mandating vaccines that don't completely prevent transmission. They fail to note that other vaccines don't completely prevent transmission either. Polio vaccines, for example, don't guarantee you won't get polio, only that you won't be paralyzed by it. Ho hum. Vaccine mandates that prevent mass paralysis are no great achievement, as they infringe on our liberty to be complete fucking imbeciles.

If governments can't mandate us to prevent millions of unnecessary deaths, then no government of any kind is legitimate.