re: How would a libertarian world deal with a serious epidemic?

how would the CDC handle an epidemic?

poorly I would assume by watching the news of what's going on

I am a card-carrying libertarian. I am not an anarchist. My rights stop where yours begin and vice versa. In the absence of the CDC, you don't think a private organization, or multiple private organizations, would spring up to replace it, and be more accountable, efficient, and effective as a result? There would probably be some sort of insurance that helps fund such an organization that gives those paying access to treatment. There would likely be multiple such organizations, each competing to prove they are each the best at disease control in the hopes of getting the most subscribers. Free market solution.

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I agree, this is a weak area for the libertarians. Anytime "big government" is actually needed the libertarian ldeology runs into this problem.

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This. Libertarian arguments for disasters are laughable sometimes. I wonder when they think the government SHOULD step in? Zombie uprising? Alien invasion?

It's (naive) ideology refusing to reconcile itself with reality.