2021 August 31 The Bryan Hyde Show

<p>If you need to have your perspective recalibrated from time to time, there's nothing quite like taking the time to appreciate all the little things that make life great. <a href="https://www.aier.org/article/i-meal-the-symphonies-of-cooperation-on-made-in-a-day/" target="_blank"><strong>Art Carden has a marvelous piece on the the symphonies of cooperation</strong></a> that take place daily to keep us fed, clothed and sheltered.</p> <p>The worst part of the various restrictions on our lives and freedoms is that the people calling for them insist that <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/08/29/its-all-for-your-own-good/" target="_blank"><strong>this is all being done "for our own good."</strong></a> TE Creus wonders why big government and big buiness are pretending that they are our strict but caring parents and we're just a bunch of unruly children in need of their guidance.</p> <p>For folks who are paying attention, there's a growing shortage of plastic products. <a href="https://www.aier.org/article/hurricane-ida-threatens-global-plastic-markets/" target="_blank"><strong>Peter C. Earle warns that Hurricane Ida may have just set the global plastic market back even further</strong></a>.</p> <p>The principle that underlies the hesitation so many feel toward taking the Covid vaccine is a principle of personal autonomy called informed consent. As William Sullivan explains, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/coog30gmailcom_how_informed_consent_became_coercion_of_the_uninformed.html" target="_blank"><strong>informed consent is being transformed into coercion of the uninformed</strong></a>. You can't stand for your rights if you don't know them.</p> <p>Given the number of people who've been vaccinated who still become infected, vaccine passports seem like a pretty useless idea. Nevertheless, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/say-no-to-vaccine-passports/" target="_blank"><strong>according to Helen Andrews, the U.S. government is plowing ahead full steam to implement the