All posts in March 2021

I am not a fan of some of the narratives around COVID-19 vaccinations, but…come on…can we not fulfill the adage, “No good deed goes unpunished?”

Krispy Kreme CEO defends COVID vaccine promotion: ‘If folks don’t want to visit a donut shop, they don’t have to’

Krispy Kreme CEO responds to controversy over the sweet incentive - to give vaccinated customers one free glazed donut, every single day of 2021.

I’m from New England, so I’ll always be a bigger fan of Dunkin’ Donuts, but kudos to Krispy Kreme.

And if you believe in individual freedom (which includes the freedom to make mistakes), you don’t want to open the door to government control based us often not making healthy choices in what we eat. As C.S. Lewis wrote (said?):

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Like any policy, public health orders must be evaluated on their outcomes. As Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said, “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

Child Suicide is Becoming an ‘International Epidemic’ Amid Restricted Pandemic Life, Doctors Warn | Brad Polumbo

“We are very surprised by the intensity of the desire to die among children who may be 12 or 13 years old,” a French doctor told the Associated Press. “We sometimes have children of 9 who already want to die. And it’s not simply a provocation or a blackmail via suicide. It is a genuine wish to end t…

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P.S. Right after posting this, I saw this article: Read More