The Question Fools Don't Ask

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"What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought?

You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person wasn't, you would dismiss him as a fool, and you would certainly never ask this person for advice about how to spend your money.

Yet, for two years, that question -- "What is the price?" -- was avoided by virtually every political leader in the world as well as the vast majority of epidemiologists and physicians, journalists and editors, college presidents, deans, professors and K-12 teachers.

They never asked, "What is the price?" with regard to locking down businesses, schools and, in many cases, entire countries.

That is why so many political leaders, teachers, college presidents, doctors, epidemiologists and other scientists turned out to be fools."

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2022/11/29/the-question-fools-dont-ask-n2616468

"If wisdom had been taught in schools and at home, Americans would have asked, "What is the price?" or, if you prefer, "What is the downside?" Yet schools do not teach this, and most parents, themselves the products of a wisdom-free education, also do not."