Dr. Ioannidis, chair in disease prevention at Stanford, thinks that
our public health planners lack perspective. They have been working
very hard to optimize one small problem, slowing the spread of
COVID-19. But have very little consideration for other problems, like
preserving livelihoods, continuing medical care, mental health,
quality of life or mass starvation.
Even on COVID-19,
they are focused on slowing transmission but show no indication they
have an end goal in mind. How do we bring this to a close?
FEE relates this to
the big and recurring principle raised by Hayek: do we want one plan
made by an expert or a thousand plans made by individuals and small
groups?
