The Administrative State’s collective disregard for the benefits of natural immunity to Covid provides another example of how it blindly prioritized bureaucratic will over liberty and even logic. Federal officials were hell-bent on making sure everyone received a Covid vaccine, whether they “needed” it or not. Bureaucrats demanded that we “trust the science,” while they…

One of the most damaging social costs imposed by the government response to the Covid-19 virus in 2020 was school closures. Their length, pervasiveness and damage were extended and strengthened by the capability to engage in remote “learning.” Because technology now allowed students to meet with teachers from their homes via computer screens, the governmental…

Another way in which the Administrative State burdened liberty during the Covid-19 pandemic was through the creation and enforcement of arbitrary lockdown rules. Governors utilized the full extent of their emergency powers (and then some) during the pandemic. Many bypassed the appropriate legislative channels to implement mandates in the name of “public health.” City mayors…

Federal agencies never let a good crisis go to waste, unless you are talking about wasting taxpayer dollars. Among many ways they exploited the Covid-19 crisis was to raid the treasury and stick taxpayers with the bill for illegal giveaways to their most dependable voting blocks. Consider the Biden Administration’s mass “forgiveness” of outstanding student…

Exaggerating the fatality risk associated with Covid-19 and portraying unscientific guesses as unqualified facts stood out as key Administrative State failures in the early days of Covid. Take the Administrative State’s early statements regarding Covid case fatality and mortality rates. A case fatality rate is a ratio of how many people infected with a particular…

When Covid arrived in the United States, all 50 governors declared a state of emergency They shut down schools, offices, stores, churches, and public parks—initially justifying these unprecedented restrictions as the now-familiar “two weeks to flatten the curve.” With few exceptions (e.g., Georgia, Florida) these emergency orders quickly morphed into abuses of power that continued…