An Ill Wind Blows

Let's shut down the media and the government for two weeks and see how quickly this crisis passes.

-Me, two years ago on Facebook

I said it at the time and I fully meant it. This was right at the start of the COVID panic, and I meant it as a slam on government, the media, and all too many regular citizens. We needed to calm down and take a breath in confronting the COVID threat.

We did not do that. Instead, we shut things down. We destroyed lives and livelihoods simply because we were scared. We stopped caring about human rights essentially because of raw, unfiltered fear.  We allowed irrationality to rule our thoughts.

That set the precedent that the government has the right to shut us up in our homes if it and only it deems the act necessary. This same government which is currently setting up a board of disinformation to determine what is wrong and what is right. 

Anybody but me feel a chill lately?