tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post3691759866866257024..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Quick Roundup 537Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-70638122196458386842010-06-03T11:22:38.577-06:002010-06-03T11:22:38.577-06:00Mike,
Thanks for writing that. I believe you ment...Mike,<br /><br />Thanks for writing that. I believe you mentioned it at some point, and I remembered it when I finally saw the movie Tuesday night. The new focus for your blog sounds interesting, especially after that review.<br /><br />Regarding your question, that happens to be one of the issues I am allowing to percolate on the backburner until I have a chance to think about it some more. Certainly, I see epidemiology as a legitimate science, and, since it is a legitimate function of the state is to protect its citizens from harm by others by such means as forcibly quarantining people with certain types of infectious diseases, I can see a case for the government, say, contracting with epidemiologists to determine what response might be appropriate to a pandemic. But I haven't given it enough thought to feel comfortable staking a position one way or the other.<br /><br />Regarding your daughter, I'm glad to hear she recovered fully.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-69741225413746287232010-06-03T10:41:06.740-06:002010-06-03T10:41:06.740-06:00Greets,
Glad you enjoyed my "Avatar" re...Greets,<br /><br />Glad you enjoyed my "Avatar" review! I appreciate the hat-tip and link. <br /><br />I am in the process of making "Bahr's House of Exuberance" a literary blog written from a distinctly Objectivist perspective. For any readers here who might be interested in that, I humbly invite you to take a look and see if you enjoy it. I am currently engaged in an exhaustive multi-part deconstruction of "The Empire Strikes Back," and will move on from there to other works.<br /><br />The Swine Flu situation hit close to home on two levels: first, my employer was among the governmental entities tasked with the epidemiological response to H1N1, and second, because my oldest daughter, only 18 months old at the time, caught H1N1 from the human petri dish that is Day Care. It was fortunate that I spent every day immersed in "good information" about H1N1 and was therefore able to make care decisions for my little one without falling under panic or hysteria, but it was off-putting to see the incredible amount of public resources (read: taxpayer dollars) being applied to a situation that was as overhyped as the Avian Flu was back in aught-three. What is your take on epidemiology as a legitimate (or not) function of objective government? I can see an argument that it represents a subcomponent of the police or military functions, but I can also see an argument that it redirects resources from some citizens to others, a mechanism that is by definition dubious at best.<br /><br />Epilogue: She recovered normally after about a week of symptoms not terribly different from "ordinary" flu.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10125745545009130612noreply@blogger.com