EP15 Did This Pandemic Prophet Get it Right Gracearchy with Jim Babka

Show Notes

Jim's ten prophetic questions from August of 2020 are listed here for clarity; you'll get his answers and August 2022 commentary in the episode.

1) Who has the greater sum of knowledge - one person or millions of people?

2) Which approach will be more robust: One person coordinating millions of humans to take a single action, or millions of people making billions of decisions and taking millions of actions?

3) When an individual makes a mistake, it might affect a handful, dozens, and (in rare cases) hundreds of people, but when a governor, a federal bureaucracy, or the President makes a mistake, are not millions, even tens of millions affected?

4) How often do humans fail to act in response to danger?

5) Was Walmart (amongst others) showing self-interested, profit-primary behavior when they created a special shopping hour for vulnerable people, encouraged one-way aisles, and instituted intensive cleaning measures (that proved to be overkill)?

6) Have the various political edicts of covid increased or decreased social harmony and cooperation?

7) Isn't it the case that, once a decision becomes political, it's no longer really scientific? That instead of actual science, it's going to be left up to Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi? …to Mike DeWine or Andrew Cuomo?

8) Do politicians respond more to fear or to facts?

9) The politicians and the bureaucrats have moved goalposts, changed stories, dropped balls, and flat-out lied. Why, this time, should we assume that their involvement will make things better?

10) How do you keep special interests from exploiting the pandemic to create unearned profits - profits that go beyond what a free market would provide?

Here's the original August 2020 Facebook post that started it all: https://www.facebook.com/jbabka/posts/pfbid02p86fgThuYmPzoQkVv89apZweXRFJ32ikva998s5KNvqcQUijV1eEnFc4cpMrs2TFl?comment_id=10159957355040830&reply_comment_id=10159957365405830

Be grace-full to each other.

Jim Babka Editor-at-Large, Advocates for Self-Government President, Agenda Setters by Downsize DC Co-creator, Zero Aggression Project

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