Yesterday evening, during WJLA’s local DC-area news telecast, the station ran an ad featuring many of its on-air personalities proclaiming – about the coronavirus crisis – “We’re all in this together.”That makes it particularly urgent for people to dissent and to consider differing policy proposals. "We may all be stuck together on the same planet, but we have better chances of living well on this planet by having opportunities to choose who to associate with or not associate with, or to try different approaches to face the challenges life throws our way."
What an ironic choice of words, given that rapidly strengthening social norms along with ever-more-draconian government commands are forcing us all into an unprecedented and unnatural separation from each other.
The people who successfully manage the pandemic and the recovery will be in a position to claim moral authority for a long time (in much the same way that the transnational technocrats kept appealing to the New Deal and Total War for too long). Trust, but verify.
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