Three Questions About Covid Hysteria

Kevin Johnson, 03/02/2021 Source: IntellectualConservative 

• Alice: But I don’t want to go among mad people.
• The Cat: Oh, you can’t help that. We’re all mad here. 
  

I feel as though I have joined Alice on her bizarre acid trip into the heart of Wonderland. A world where everything is nonsense. Nothing is what it is, because everything is what it isn’t. (L. Carroll) 

A world where reason, facts, and personal liberty are trampled by hysteria, lies, and good old-fashioned bullying. Daily I find myself on the verge of pulling out what hair I have left, as I wander through this strange upside world in which left is right, good is bad, and light is darkness. Society seems to have abandoned rational thinking and given itself wholeheartedly over to groupthink . 

To quote Agent K from Men In Black, “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.” 

This seems to be a reinterpretation of a similar quote from Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, but the idea is the same. When people are together accountability disappears, and mob mentality ensues. This is why we elect leaders that are supposed to be the cooler heads in the room, but they seem to have decided to encourage the current hysteria. 

What their motives are I will leave up to you to decide, but unless we reverse course, not adjust, not acquiesce to the “new normal”, but turn around and go back to what is good and proven then I am uncertain what our future will look like. Daily I ponder the current state of the world, the nation, and even my own neighborhood and I wonder these three things….....To Read More......