Right now, you’re looking like your ingrained contrarian smuggery is getting the better of you. You’re looking emotional, not rational.

Following the lead of Washington Post columnist Gary Abernathy and those like him is a false choice leading nowhere, except toward a healthcare catastrophe — one that would, in the end, wreck the economy much worse than any mandated shutdown ever could

This whole “heavy hand of government” business is just an insidious form of spin. It’s an ideological confection offered to people like an enormous dollop of whipped cotton candy — frothy, sweet and easy to eat a ton of it, but it dissolves into nothing in an instant, and it’s terrible for your health. Maybe even deadly.