As the French philosopher and activist, Bernard-Henri Levy put it this week . . .
“The doctors are just people. They just don’t know. They cannot be invested with this or authority. Under their white coats, they are naked, like Hans Christian Andersen’s Emperor and like you and me.”
“People keep saying this is an unprecedented pandemic,” he continues, “It is not true. There seems to be an intention, a collective desire to panic.
It’s not as big a disaster as we think.”
“There’s a sort of unilateral focus, COVID, COVID, COVID. It completely erased any other information.”
He says, “We must resist the wind of madness blowing over the world.”
Yes, we must. Because the cost of the madness, the human cost, is now astronomical. And it’s borne not by the doctors, not by their media fanboys and girls, not by the clueless politicians making it up as they go along, but mainly by the poorest Americans, working Americans, black and Hispanic Americans, the very people that the shutdown fanatics say they speak for, but obviously don’t.
Here’s the shutdown toll. Over 17 million still out of work. At one point, it was 40 million, over $41,000 per taxpayer in government spending, over 100,000 small businesses shut down for good; and of course, the human toll. The mental health catastrophe and the disastrous effects of long term poverty on life expectancy.
And what did it all achieve? Practically nothing. (Source: Steve Hilton, Fox News 8-3-2020).
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