CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2020 | A7

Contact FORUM „ Letters to the editor: [email protected] The wisdom of Will Biden give in to Walter Williams isdom is not the same as liberties. W information, or knowl- Williams was also unapolo- the Hydroxy Effect? edge. These days, there getic about his devotion to capi- is more information available talism. He wrote: “Prior to cap- here is as yet no known, Trump’s presidential endorsement was to everyone than ever before, italism, the way people amassed T easily accessible cure for apparent proof of rank quackery. Yet a few thanks to the internet, but also, great wealth was by looting, COVID-19. perhaps at least in part because plundering and enslaving their Over the past year, lots of old recent second-look studies, especially abroad, of the internet, there is less wis- fellow man. Capitalism made it and new drugs and supplements suggest that hydroxychloroquine, a dirt-cheap, dom. possible to become wealthy by — Ivermectin, azithromycin, The late Walter Williams was serving your fellow man.” Remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, time-tested anti-malarial drug, can in fact full of wisdom, which is one In what might be considered a vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, as- offer help in treating some cases of COVID-19. reason his economic and social warning to the incoming Biden pirin, Pepcid and others — have philosophies were so widely administration, whose nomi- shown at least This Hydroxy Effect — hysterical disavowal of ignored by elite economists and nated members and Biden, him- some anecdotal anything Trump has endorsed — is dangerous to the major media who traffic only self, seem intent on raising taxes value in amelio- in information. Much of it argu- on people who earn the money rating the effects the country at large. ably debatable, even untrue. and spending it on projects with of early-stage Williams, who died last week questionable outcomes, Wil- COVID-19. Clin- tion, and other Trump criticisms states. at age 84, was liams wrote: “No matter how ical physicians of China were all ridiculed as Logic dictates that Biden would an economist, a worthy the cause, it is robbery, VICTOR treating patients proof of his racism or intellectual recapture the lost Democratic political conser- theft, and injustice to confiscate DAVIS in hospitals often puerility. working class by mouthing vative and an Af- the property of one person and HANSON disagree with the Now, after the 2020 election Trump economic agendas with- rican American. give it to another to whom it research scientists and the apparent victory of Joe out mentioning Trump’s creation He likely would does not belong.” conducting trials Biden, we learn from the media of them. Fair (rather than just have preferred to Williams hammered home his on the efficacy of all these treat- that in fact the virus had spread free) trade, border security, de- CAL be spoken of in point in this statement: “The ments. much earlier than China had ad- regulation, tax incentives, and THOMAS that order. recognition of the fact that Yet only hydroxychloroquine mitted. The utility of travel bans unprecedented gas and oil pro- He taught Congress has no resources of its has prompted furious partisan is now a part of scientific con- duction all created near-record economic theory own forces us to acknowledge debate over its possible useful- sensus. And the leadership of the middle-class wage growth — a at George Mason University that the only way Congress can ness. Why? WHO remains under criticism. formerly Democratic staple issue. in Virginia for 40 years. His give one American one dollar is Probably because Don- Before 2016, the consensus on So Biden has two choices. teachings were based on his- to first, through intimidation, ald Trump endorsed its usage China was that it was destined to One, he can appropriate many torical experience and wisdom. threats, and coercion, confiscate months ago. Almost immediately, take over the world. This was the of the Trump successes. He can Williams also occasionally ap- that dollar from some other the media, the university and establishment’s de facto defense rebrand them as his own and peared on radio and TV, which American. If a private citizen government medical community, of profiting-making by outsourc- quibble over particulars. gave him a certain cache beyond did the same thing that Con- and the progressive political op- ing to China. Do that, and Biden would likely the classroom. gress does, we would call it an position declared hydroxychlo- The conventional wisdom ig- see a huge post-COVID-19 eco- Williams’ wisdom is also on immoral act — namely theft. roquine useless and dangerous. nored Chinese violations of com- nomic recovery, a stable Middle display in his writings. In his Acts such as theft that are im- A recent media study from the mercial trade norms and theft East, a world united against Chi- book “All it Takes is Guts: A moral when done privately do National Bureau of Economic of technology and intellectual na’s commercial abuses and hu- Minority View,” he wrote: “But not become moral when done Research found that positive property. It largely dismissed the man rights travesties, beefed-up let me offer you my definition of collectively. The moral tragedy news stories about the research complaints of human rights ac- U.S. defenses and a refreshed social justice: I keep what I earn that has befallen Americans and development of COVID-19 tivists who were appalled by Chi- NATO. and you keep what you earn. is our belief that it is okay for vaccines barely outnumbered na’s re-education camps, its sup- Or two, Biden can suffer the Do you disagree? Well then tell government to forcibly use one negative stories about Trump and pression of political and religious Hydroxy Effect. Anything Trump me how much of what I earn American to serve the purposes hydroxychloroquine. freedom, and its extermination of was for, Biden and the left will belongs to you – and why?” At of another.” Trump’s presidential endorse- Islamic and Tibetan culture. be automatically against. That first this can sound selfish, even It was professor and science ment was apparent proof of Now, pushback against Chi- would mean a decision to allow cruel, but his point was to en- fiction writer Isaac Asimov who rank quackery. Yet a few recent nese imperialism, authoritar- unchecked immigration. Freeze courage work, not welfare, and said about wisdom: “The sad- second-look studies, especially ianism and global bullying is a construction of, or even tear achievement, not failure. dest aspect of life right now is abroad, suggest that hydroxy- bipartisan consensus — as long as down, the border wall. Lift tariffs How’s this for a distinction: that science gathers knowledge chloroquine, a dirt-cheap, time- Trump is not cited as the voice- on China. Let NATO members “Democracy and liberty are not faster than society gathers wis- tested anti-malarial drug, can in in-the-wilderness stimulus for pay as little as they like. Ban or the same. Democracy is little dom.” fact offer help in treating some such a reset. cut back on fracking. Rejoin the more than mob rule, while lib- Walter Williams might have cases of COVID-19. This Pavlovian Hydroxy Effect Iran nuclear deal. Rejoin the Paris erty refers to the sovereignty of agreed. May he rest in peace, This Hydroxy Effect — hyster- poses a challenge to Biden. Climate Agreement. Polarize Is- the individual.” secure in the knowledge that ical disavowal of anything Trump Logic dictates that Biden would rael and its new Arab allies. Fast- That one has special rele- his wisdom will remain for all has endorsed — is dangerous to not scrap the framework of an track the Green New Deal. Raise vance given this year’s rioters who pursue a depth greater than the country at large. effective containment policy of taxes sky-high. Let the Rust Belt and looters who upended sev- knowledge. Trump was reviled for his early expansionist China. Pacific na- rust. Allow Big Tech to do as it eral cities and exposed their condemnation of China’s role tions such as Australia, Japan, pleases. political leaders as weak and in- Readers may email Cal Thomas in the COVID-19 pandemic. He South Korea and Taiwan appre- Adopting the Hydroxy Ef- decisive. Politicians are increas- at [email protected]. Look railed against the “China vi- ciated Trump’s efforts to corral fect and junking anything with ingly stealing the sovereignty for his new book, “America’s rus” — a traditional eponymous China. America’s empty “Asian a Trump fingerprint on it will of the individual in the era of Expiration Date: The Fall of branding of a virus by its place of Pivot” of the past has become real please the hard-left Biden base. COVID-19. Their top-down Empires and Superpowers and the origin, and in this case one used in leading resistance to Chinese Rejecting it will benefit the coun- edicts increasingly threaten our Future of the United States.” by other media before Trump’s bullying. try. adoption of the sobriquet. Logic suggests that Biden Of the two choices, I’d bet on Letters to the editor Trump alleged that Chinese would appreciate inheriting a Biden giving in to the Hydroxy officials knew for months about more stable Middle East, with Effect. To submit a letter to the editor, go to trib.com/letters, email let- SARS-CoV-2, the virus that Arab states and Israel increas- [email protected] or address the submission to the Casper Star-Tri- causes COVID-19, before letting ingly united against the theocracy Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist bune, Letters Editor, 170 Star Lane, Casper, Wyoming, 82604. Let- on about the dangers the disease in Iran. The emerging alliances and historian at the Hoover ters must be 350 words or fewer, cannot criticize a specific business posed to the world at large. seem tailor-made to allow Biden Institution, Stanford University, and may be edited for clarity, taste and accuracy. Submissions No matter. Anything Trump to take credit for still more Arab and the author of “The Second must include the writer’s name, hometown and phone number; the said had to be resisted. The nations recognizing Israel — with World Wars: How the First Global phone number will be used for verification purposes only. A writer Trump travel ban, the Trump ac- both parties investing in the West Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from is allowed to have two letters published each month. cusations of China’s corruption Bank to offer Palestinians eco- Basic Books. You can reach him by of the World Health Organiza- nomic parity with surrounding e-mailing [email protected] Can disease-spreading dolts be reasoned with?

suppose this is progress: On D.C. bar whooping it up in tight America. unknown. But as health au- see how much crap is left on it. I Sunday, Trump’s vaccine quarters, all of them exercising He signed the email “Beow- thorities learned more — about Same idea. It doesn’t have to be “czar,” Moncef Slaoui, en- their God-given freedom to ulf,” so let’s call him that. Be- the spread of the disease and perfect — we are talking about dorsed President-elect Biden’s infect. And last month, out in owulf was upset with a recent the efficacy of masks — their risk reduction, not risk elimina- plan to ask all Americans to Oregon, a high-profile doctor column where I criticized Scott recommendations changed. tion. Quit your bulls—- and put wear masks during his first 100 named Steven LaTulippe ap- Atlas, Trump’s incompetent That’s called science. The CDC on your mask.” days. Slaoui’s said, “I think peared at a Trump rally and told (and now-departed) coronavi- endorsed masks for the general That last part is what I told it’s a good idea…We all need to the cultists to “take off the mask rus adviser. After a few insults, public on April 3, and Fauci has Beowulf, quoting Labus. I take our precaution, have our off shame” (few wore masks Beowulf wrote: confirmed that in countless in- shared Labus’ refutation of the masks…We will anyway). He also boasted that “You are without objectiv- terviews ever since. chain link lie, and explained not all have the none of his clinic staffers wore ity. One example; where in this Beowulf’s other argument — Fauci’s stance on masks. vaccine in our masks. The cultists cheered for piece is the switching positions that the virus passes through You might be tempted to arms before May that one. (The state has since of both Fauci and the concern- masks with the ease of insects ask me whether Beowulf was or June. So we suspended LaTulippe’s medical ing masks? Why do you not say flying through “a chain link swayed by my response, but you need to be very license, so now he’s a martyr.) why he was originally against fence” — is a viral Facebook know the answer. cautious and vig- You have to wonder how them? And do you know that lie that’s persistently popular As Thomas Paine famously DICK ilant.” many more deaths and hospi- the average mask mesh size among deniers. But infectious said, “To argue with a man POLMAN Alas, and oh talizations and illnesses and compared to virus size is the disease expert Brian Labus, a who has renounced the use so predictably, quarantines we must endure, on same as that of a chain link member of Nevada’s corona- and authority of reason…is like Slaoui’s message the cusp of our darkest winter, fence and a swarm of flies?” virus task force, had the best administering medicine to the was undercut 24 hours later by before the selfish idiots among This is what we’re up against, response: dead.” his lame-duck boss, who pro- us finally recognize their re- folks. People like Beowulf are “First, the viral particles Thanks to science, there’s ceeded to violate CDC guide- sponsibility to their fellow cit- still assailing Anthony Fauci don’t leave your mouth at that hope on the horizon. But alas, lines by hosting a maskless cer- izens. for what he initially said about size. They start out larger and there’s no vaccination against emony in the Oval Office. How Actually, I remember pon- masks way back on March 8. shrink due to evaporation. Sec- ignorance. many more people will he kill on dering that question when the They’re still mimicking Trump’s ond, they don’t come out in a his way out? death toll hit 1,000. But now fake claim that Fauci was nice, single-file line with the Dick Polman, a veteran national He’s our most prominent it’s 280,000, and I’m pondering against masks — whereas, in ability to navigate the mask. political columnist based in menace to public health, but anew not just because that stat truth, Fauci was trying to pre- They all come out together, Philadelphia and a Writer in he’s hardly alone. is so horrific, but because one vent a mask shortage for health bang into each other, hit the Residence at the University of Two random examples: Last of my pen pals — a reader — has workers. mask and so on. Lots of them Pennsylvania, writes at DickPolman. week, a viral photo showed emailed me a blast of ignorance Also, at that time, the extent get caught. That’s the idea. Go net. Email him at dickpolman7@ M 1 maskless patrons of a popular that epitomizes the worst of of asymptomatic spread was sneeze on a window screen and gmail.com