![]() ![]() Tyler says that’s not his read of the GBD but doesn’t say how the GBD differs from what Russ has summarized. And I think Russ does a great job of that. Russ tries as gently as he can to get Tyler to answer his question about the GBD. But, there has not been a major lockdown for a long time in most of the Southeast, and indeed many other parts of the county. My state of Virginia, virtually all stores have been open for really a long time. So, past a certain point most parts of the United States, schools aside, have been mostly open. And they also systematically overestimate how many lockdowns are in operation. Tyler Cowen: It’s not independent from the other agendas. But, yeah, I’m not interested actually in those other side-agendas. But, the original Declaration and the epidemiologists and economists who were involved, the three people, made some sense to me. Yeah, I have nothing to say about the more institutional implementation of that Declaration. I’m think of Jay Bhattacharya, who on this program I thought was quite sensible about the idea of locking down everyone seems remarkably inefficient and puts an enormous cost on people who are at relatively low risk. Though some parts of it, if you present in isolation, do in fact make good sense. Tyler Cowen: So, I’ve been very much opposed to their program as a whole. And, you even have Jeffrey Tucker, well into fall, saying, ‘Vaccines, what vaccines? We need to let everyone get infected.’ And, if you look at what the Great Barrington people did on that it was remarkably little until very late in the process. The emphasis should have been, all along, deregulating the process of getting good vaccines out there quickly. It has led libertarian and conservative movements in the wrong direction. I think when you look at the overall entire framing of Great Barrington, it’s been extremely harmful. Very passive attitudes or even hostile attitudes toward vaccines. ![]() But, it’s typically some time that was a while ago. It will all be over by–fill in the month. They’ve told us that a lot of the cases are phony. ![]() Tyler Cowen: A lot of the people connected with that institution have made very dubious predictions and not backed down from them. Russ Roberts: That may not be fair to them. Tyler Cowen: That’s not my read of what the Great Barrington Declaration actually called for. Russ Roberts: Should we have followed something akin to what the Great Barrington Declaration folks are suggesting: Extreme care with people over the age of 70 and 80 and letting other people mostly go about their business? There’s one issue, though, an important one, on which Tyler still has trouble admitting he’s wrong: the Great Barrington Declaration. Tyler also, to his credit, even points out predictions and thoughts on which, he realizes in retrospect, he was wrong. They cover a lot of territory and Tyler has a lot of insights about culture, among other things. The most recent EconTalk with Russ Roberts interviewing Tyler Cowen is quite good. ![]()
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