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Tom Woods is his usual scathing, entertaining self: "Let me say something about local politics, which people (to their peril) often forget about in favor of the glamour of national politics. It's at the state and local level that the low-IQ "listen to the science" lizard people have done their damage. People laughed when I pointed out that in Alachua County, Florida, which implemented a one-person-per-1000-square-feet rule for local businesses, the county commission chair admitted that that figure had been chosen "because it's easy math for everybody to do." This is crackpottery, not "science." Something similar seems to have motivated Pennsylvania's restrictions on restaurants, and by extension to all restrictions involving a distinction between "life-sustaining" and "non-life-sustaining" businesses." Click the link to read more: https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/local?e=e12e7e22b8