Outrageous, but not surprising. This outcome was immediately obvious to every parent who saw the new material.

Strange, but Sweden’s success is so obvious that no one could deny it now. Why is the United States still locked down?

As the WHO’s Michael Ryan notes, another positive outcome of Sweden’s approach is that it has provided an example of what to do when the next over-hyped “pandemic” emerges.

Witnessing your fellow man descend into herd madness and stubbornly remain in spite of the evidence is enough to drive any sane person into misanthropy. As the evidence mounts that masks are actually suffocating everyone rather than preventing the spread of COVID-19, one wonders why so many continue to wear them. Yet they continue to wear them, whether driving, biking, walking, or any of the myriad activities they engage in throughout the day. The masks themselves have become almost a Woke Era fashion statement, and those that don them seem eager to inform the world that they’re with it, man. We’ve got to defeat coronavirus, so just stay home, man! It’s pandemic theater and everyone is a part of the cast. In fact, many have engaged in theatrical posturing with gusto. They love it. They appear to catwalk their custom breathing masks in public, indifferent to the fact that it has zero effect on the spread of coronavirus. What truly matters to them is the spectacle and their place in it. And so they wear the masks, shame others who don’t, and in so doing become the unwitting, free-lance enforcers of the pandemic Police State. And as the gulf widens between the woke pandemic scolds who enjoy the luxury of working from home, and the vast underclass of millions of Americans for whom working from home is not an option, the United States proceeds in a direct line toward the most destructive class conflict in history.

The newly unemployed 30 million Americans have virtually no voice among the corporate news outlets. Instead they are treated to hyperbolic fearmongering over an infection with a 0.1-0.2% fatality rate. They’ve been on the receiving end of unsolicited lectures about the necessity of staying home by upper crust, politically-connected millionaires who pose as journalists on television. These still-employed woke scolds who feel compelled to shame the commoners for not adhering to their idea of how they should behave, have no idea of the political/social pressure cooker that is now steaming wildly, bolts flying off, the volume of the whistling growing ever louder. If we continue down this path of ignoring the clear and present danger of the unemployment crisis, it will explode in our faces. By that time there will be no way to reverse the situation. You can’t unscramble an egg.

So, people enjoy authoritarianism because it massages their vanity, makes them feel important, empowers their inner busybody as well as their inner snitch. When they can rat out their neighbors for not towing the coronavirus line, when they can publicly shame others for the same, they feel more powerful than they’ve ever felt in their miserable lives. They get a pat on the head from the authoritarian government that they’ve handed their neighbors over to, and they feel warm inside. In this way authoritarianism is self-enforced.

Check out the naked State thuggery unfolding before our very eyes in the good ol’ U S of A.

So the military has concocted a ridiculous spectacle for the benefit of the public: a Blue Angels fly-over as tribute to healthcare workers “on the front line!”.  And as much as I love the Air Force’s shiny planes, I can think of better reasons to waste taxpayer millions.  What I want to know is this: where is the tribute to the 43,000 healthcare workers that lost their jobs due to the cancellation of every hospital procedure other than COVID-19? Where’s the tribute to the 140+ hospitals that have closed their doors due to this policy? Where’s the tribute to the 30 million Americans that found themselves unemployed over the past 6 weeks due to the reckless lock-downs?

The “hero” narrative is going to have a hard time standing on its own in the face of the facts. There are no heroes among what has happened, only victims.

Within the pandemic fascistic state, the police become the de facto enforcers of every bizarre dictum handed down to them. Constitutional or not, police have made it clear that they are willing and able to carry out these totalitarian orders. Arrest a pastor for giving a sermon in his own church? Collect license plate numbers of church attendees? Bust up peaceful social gatherings? Arrest business owners for operating during lock-downs? There is much, much more. And the cops will do all of it.

I’ve never understood the culture of cop worship that permeates conservative circles. It’s always appeared to be a projection of what they hope police really are, rather than what they actually are. Cop worshipers want to believe in the inherent goodness of the person wearing the badge, and then they make themselves believe it. And many, if not most, cops are good. But their paycheck is tied to how well they obey orders, and not many will risk that paycheck in order to martyr themselves for the Constitution. Police are the armed agents of the State. They’re paid by the State, and take orders from the State. Many are good, many are bad. But even the best are only as good as the diktats they are compelled to enforce. They are not paid to protect your liberty from their employer. And if their paycheck depends on violating your liberty, what do you think they’ll choose?

Moral of the story: not only are the cops not coming to save us, they are the ones who will implement totalitarianism at the ground-level. They will be the ones to confiscate weapons, arrest and imprison dissidents (or shoot them), harass and intimidate job owners, etc. This type of work is in their job description. It is their essential function.

When totalitarianism arrives at your doorstep, it won’t be Nancy Pelosi demanding your papers. It won’t be “the libs”, or the local DNC chapter. It will be the armed enforcers of the State. It will be the cops.