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Imagine my shock when I read this:
"Just because we cannot imagine a voluntary market solution does not mean one does not exist. South Korea is an example to emulate. Instead of an authoritarian locking down of its people, it took a much more libertarian approach to the problem and is already showing promising results."
Wow!, I thought. Libertarianism in South Korea? That doesn't sound real. And guess what? If you follow that link, you'll see that it's not real! It is, in fact, a lie. Because libertarians tell lies.
"Behind [South Korea's] success so far has been the most expansive and well-organized testing program in the world, combined with extensive efforts to isolate infected people and trace and quarantine their contacts...

Legislation [gives] the government authority to collect mobile phone, credit card, and other data from those who test positive to reconstruct their recent whereabouts. That information, stripped of personal identifiers, is shared on social media apps that allow others to determine whether they may have crossed paths with an infected person.

After the novel coronavirus emerged in China, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) raced to develop its tests and cooperated with diagnostic manufacturers to develop commercial test kits...

High-risk patients with underlying illnesses get priority for hospitalization, says Chun Byung-Chul, an epidemiologist at Korea University. Those with moderate symptoms are sent to repurposed corporate training facilities and spaces provided by public institutions, where they get basic medical support and observation. Those who recover and test negative twice are released. Close contacts and those with minimal symptoms whose family members are free of chronic diseases and who can measure their own temperatures are ordered to self-quarantine for 2 weeks. A local monitoring team calls twice daily to make sure the quarantined stay put and to ask about symptoms. Quarantine violators face up to 3 million won ($2500) fines. If a recent bill becomes law, the fine will go up to 10 million won and as much as a year in jail."
Ah, yes, the ol' "libertarian approach" to handling pandemics:

Create a centralized, powerful, big-government agency to lead the response on behalf of the entire country;
Forcibly collect and publicize the personal information of anyone who tests positive for the disease;
Dictate terms to the private health-care sector;
Quickly tweak your socialized health care system so that it prioritizes the people who are at the highest risk;
Physically detain everyone else who's sick; and, last but not least,
Sentence anyone from step 5 to two weeks of house arrest, subject to fines and jail time.
I mean, you tell me: does that look like a "voluntary market solution" to you? Because it sure as shit doesn't look like one to me.

Then again, if you're a libertarian, you're not looking in the first place, are you? So really I don't know what I expected.
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