It was frightening to see how values that I thought were mainly widely accepted (like the freedom of expressing one's opinion) were promptly discarded in the name of the war against Covid and how simplistic slogans were made up and propagated to prevent any form of discussion. You

When thinking about the consequences of the pandemic's government actions, I couldn't help but think about Bastiat's famous "seen and unseen" phrase. To assess a certain measure, one needs to look at both the direct and indirect effects: the short-term, easily visible

One of the slogans invented to make people fall in line was "stay home, save lives." It's deceptively simple and tough to argue against: after all, who'd dare to put other people's lives at risk, especially if all you have to do

SARS-CoV-2 is a dangerous virus, especially to elderly or otherwise vulnerable people: there's no doubt about that. Almost the entirety of 2020 was spent fighting it, and since large-scale fighting is always carried out by governments, the details of the struggle have quickly become heavily politicized. Therefore, I&

"If it even saves one life" is another slogan that's impossible to contend with. If locking down whole countries -and since most governments copied each other, entire continents- saves just one life, you'd be a heartless bastard to oppose it, right? Yet lockdowns have

A common blurb invariably used to stop any arguments criticizing the Covid-related restrictions dead in its tracks is "listen to the science." The statement first seems ironic because whatever guidelines were followed before the Covid pandemic were promptly ignored as if the virus was a beast of a