The Zero-Risk Western Society

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Finally -- something recent from National Review worth reading.  This is a must-read, must-comment-on piece.

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The Zero-Risk Western Society

By ANDREW A. MICHTA | April 11, 2021 6:30 AM

 

A year of the COVID pandemic has transformed some of the freest and most affluent societies in the history of the West beyond recognition and in ways perhaps never imagined.  Not even amid the last century's two world wars did we experience anything similar to the past twelve months, whereby the economies and lives of entire nations were stopped on a dime by executive fiat, when normal human interactions were forcibly halted to save us from a pathogen that, according to many a pundit — at least initially — would have otherwise killed millions.  During this past year "lockdowns" gained widespread currency: a term eerily connoting the idea of incarceration, only this time it was to be effected by the citizens themselves, urged to accept a de facto self-imprisonment mandated by pro publico bono and based on the mantra of "trust the science" repeated by government officials and media outlets.  As a result, Europe and North America of a year ago and today look like two different worlds.  [...]

 

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[Ban Hammer 13,421]

does anyone still remember "flatten the curve" ?

[Dashinka 24,629]

5 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Finally -- something recent from National Review worth reading.  This is a must-read, must-comment-on piece.

A continuing result of the increasing "nanny state".

[TBoneTX 45,572]

That's one of the best-written pieces on the specific and larger topic that I can remember reading.

[Dashinka 24,629]

It is so funny to see the pushback on Tucker C. regarding him asking The Fauch a completely relevant question about what happens with people who are vaccinated fully.  Heck, even the "venerable" Maxine Waters had to come to the defense of The Fauch over tough questioning.  If The Fauch doesn't want tough questions, he should have retired instead of becoming a political advisor to Old Joe.

[TBoneTX 45,572]

19 hours ago, Dashinka said:

he should have retired

At this point, he should be forcibly retired with accompanying humiliation in public.

[Dashinka 24,629]

10 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

At this point, he should be forcibly retired with accompanying humiliation in public.

I thought there was a mandatory retirement age for federal bureaucrats?

[TBoneTX 45,572]

He's long past his "best by" date, if indeed he ever had one.