{"id":12879,"date":"2021-02-21T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:03:23","slug":"our-descent-into-collective-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-descent-into-collective-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Descent Into Collective Madness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine, to self-induced recession, to riot, arson, and looting, to a contested election, and to a riot at the Capitol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the virus attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or are we descending into a sort of madness?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might have been understandable that trillions of dollars had to be borrowed to keep a suffocating economy breathing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it makes little sense to keep borrowing $2 trillion a year to prime an economy now set to roar back with herd-like immunity on the horizon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trillions of dollars in stimulus are already priming the economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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