Flu and colds are back with a vengeance

Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by VancouverMan on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:15AM (#33548657)

This shouldn't be surprising. The economy, forestry, and healthcare are all examples of government intervention that introduces artificial distortions that make a situation worse than it otherwise would have been had natural balances been allowed to proceed without those artificial distortions.

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by taeric on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:39AM (#33549108)

Any intervention system can be used as an example for why you should intervene. Just as any intervention system can be used as an example for why you should not.

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by ceejayoz on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:26AM (#33548855)

They're also examples of places where a lack of government intervention can be harmful.

Wildfires are a problem in part because people, left to their own devices, build in places they probably shouldn't have. (Or plant eucalyptus in California. Whoops.)

Healthcare, unregulated, is where we get the term "snake oil salesman" and cocaine-based panaceas from; most of the places with more regulation of healthcare than the US like Europe have both cheaper healthcare and similar health outcomes. An entirely unregulated economy gets you something more like Somalia and Afghanistan's. etc. etc. etc.

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by PraetorianGourd on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:38PM (#33554603)

I would be all for cocaine-based panaceas.

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