Rejoinder to Block on COVID

Abstract

Block (2022) takes issue with Slenzok’s (2021) argument against universal antipandemic restrictions (UAPR) developed in the context of COVID-19. He purports to have concocted a thought experiment that invalidates Slenzok’s analysis. In this brief reply, it is demonstrated that Block’s scenario is beside the point and that his (qualified) pro-UAPR position is premised on a notion of agnosticism which, if followed consistently, would render libertarianism utterly inapplicable to real-life conditions.