Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

3/n Pea-brained pseudo-libertarians (PBPL) attribute the loss of economic activity to the "lockdown" brought by "government", not to the virus Few who are neither brain-dead nor PBPL wd voluntarily go expose themselves to viruses. Risk aversion is responsible for economic effects — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2020 Hibernated

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2/n I am not saying 1) here is the authority of Hayek, or 2) Hayek was a "true" libertarian. I am just fed up with sociopaths with reduced brain functions citing Hayek to justify their crackpot theories about the pandemic. Period. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/n This is similar to aversion to plane crashes. A tiny risk of crash, orders of magnitude smaller than death from COVID, causes enough people to avoid flying in the 737 max to make it unprofitable. Governments follow. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2020 Hibernated