Austria, one home of free-market libertarianism. When you deny the public exists, you end up reinventing it…

Austria, one home of free-market libertarianism. When you deny the public exists, you end up reinventing it one (incarcerated) group at a time. Libertarians hate the lockdowns their own ideas cause. /1#auspol #covid19aus @YouAreLobbyLud @polioandme https://t.co/UOJoVWW5b8

This ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ idea has always bothered me. A collective, public event - a pandemic - becomes a consumerist libertarian question of individual choice. Like shopping. This is what libertarians have done with the vaccines,…/2

…rather than use them as part of an integrated public health strategy, that recognises this is a public, collective emergency, they’ve tried to keep their fantasy world of free sovereign individuals, vaccinated or not. And now they’re going to lock up very specific…/3

…individuals who don’t make the right choices. ‘Right’ choices that can only be defined collectively, as the public good. But they won’t admit there is a public, or a public good. Better to lock individuals up than question your core idiot beliefs. /4

Austria could use public health measures to get Covid under control. But instead lockdowns will now get even more granular, in total contradiction with their idiot beliefs about freedom again. To paraphrase Planck, beliefs alas tend to only change one funeral at a time. /end