GOVERNMENT CREDIBILITY WAS IN THE DUMPSTER BEFORE COVID: But what will it be when pandemic restrictions are finally lifted or simply ignored on a wholesale basis? Good question posed by Jeffrey Tucker, writing for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

Among much else, Tucker offers this observation:

“In 2006, the great epidemiologist Donald Henderson warned that if government pursued coercive measures to control a virus, the result would be a ‘loss of confidence in government to manage the crisis.’ The reason is that the measures do not work. Further, the attempt to make them work turns a manageable crisis into a catastrophe. Prophetic.”