And what to say of government here? The best reforming group out of this entire pandemic was private industry developing lifesaving vaccines while governments around the world took action ranging from pretending the virus doesn’t exist to outright denial that such a thing could even happen. And let’s not forget it was government researchers and labs that almost surely were working on gain of function research and accidentally let the virus escape.

So no. I’m not buying this one-sided argument. Governments around the word failed miserably at their jobs while corporations and supply chains did miraculously well. Donald Trump didn’t put food on my table. The CEOs of major corporations and front-line workers did. Ayn Rand is certainly worth of critique and there are a lot of things to say about Objectivism (which I do think is funny how up in arms people get over this silly book), but the arguments and discussion put forth in this article were quite poor, in my opinion.

> How would Galt’s Gulch have responded last year when COVID-19 arrived?

Idk. Seemed like all the small towns that all the wealthy software engineers and remote workers fled to did alright.