… is from page 134 of Richard Epstein’s great 1995 book, Simple Rules for a Complex World:
Yet time after time a worst-case analysis allows visions of the apocalypse to color judgments about the desirability of social action.
DBx: Indeed so.
And in no time during my now-long lifetime has this sad truth been as tragically descriptive as it is during the Age of Covid-19 and the rise of the Covidocracy.