Vaccine Reluctance And Risk Assessment: The Relationship Between The Quest For Unachievable Safety And Fascism

Faulty Risk Assessment: "Self-Terrorization Is The National Pastime"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/04/faulty-risk-assessment-self.html

Alan: Risk is inherent in every human activity, including staying in your home with the doors locked.

For decades, I have defined “fascism” as any attempt to pretend that political authorities can make life safer than "God intended it to be."

Yes, we can make our lives safer.

But there is a threshold beyond which the impossible quest for even greater safety  is self destructive and opens the door wide to fascist authoritarianism.

It is always enlightening to remember that the single most dangerous thing we do every day is get behind the wheel of our car.