The way that many people are behaving now, in the face of the dramatic evaporation of COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, is interesting. Many want it to continue indefinitely. They’ve anchored their identity to COVID panic in the same way that psychologically broken people latch onto various apocalyptic cults. This psychological phenomenon is what explains the behavior of so many otherwise rational people over the past year. The abrupt emergence of a new cult, a new religion, and along with it all the strange, destructive, herd-mind behavior that cult acolytes engage in. Now that their god is most certainly dead, revealed to be nothing more than an empty statue, some are stumbling back towards reality, while others cling to the fantasy.
COVID is leaving almost as fast as it arrived. Now we must seek to understand what forces allowed us to descend into such self-destructive madness for an entire year.
This doesn’t take into account the COVID fascism currently alive and well in places like Ontario, Israel, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and others. They are now dealing with an entirely different problem. It does truly seem that the United States will once again provide a safe haven for freedom, in a deeply unfree world.
