Obedience Fatigue"Americans are an obedient people, especially when summoned in response to a national crisis.
Citizens bought war bonds to support U.S. soldiers fighting enemies overseas...
...Obedience, however, depends on a fragile bond of trust, and our national leaders have recklessly tested the limits of that bond during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The limits, although elastic, are
nearing the breaking point.In the guise of fighting a public health emergency, the public has endured a de facto national quarantine (even for healthy adults), business closures (many of them likely to be permanent), the shuttering of schools, bans on worship services, social distancing mandates, and of course the now-ubiquitous—but
previously unheard of—command to wear face masks in public.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, who as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases serves as the nation’s COVID czar, began the flip-flopping in early 2020, when he mandated the wearing of masks, after previously opining on the news show 60 Minutes that “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”
- In fact, Fauci went even further, suggesting that mask-wearing could be counter-productive for the general public.
- ...Fauci even suggested that the public would be safer wearing two masks in public (contrary to CDC guidelines), before quickly reversing himself and admitting that “There’s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference.”
...But the COVID-19 debacle is not yet over.
Fauci refuses to give up the influence he has held for over a year.
Requiring or recommending the public wear masks—even at outdoor events and even after being fully-vaccinated—has moved beyond any semblance of “science,” and is now purely an
instrument of social control. Benjamin Franklin famously
remarked that “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”...
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