THEY CAN RUN, BUT THEY CAN'T HIDE.

The rich people fled to Nantucket.  Now covid is there, and they're ...

The monsters have escaped the Twilight Zone and have come to tony Nantucket Island. Early in this Covid-19 crisis, the wealthy fled to Nantucket to escape the virus. Now cases on Nantucket are rising, and as on Maple Street, “residents are pointing the fingers at each other over who is to blame.” Some cast aspersions on the outsiders who swelled Nantucket’s population; others point fingers at those they know.

Nantucket neighbors are eager to rat out others for perceived transgressions: “For every individual charged with disregarding public-health guidelines, there seemed to be another calling their neighbors out for their reckless behavior either on social media or privately on calls with the board of health.”

Just another failure of Wise Experts, but the schadenfreude!

Law professor Bruce Pardy observes, “’Obey the science’ has come to mean ‘Believe what we tell you and do as you are told.’” Pardy instructs, “Pronouncements from medical officials deserve skepticism, not because they are bad doctors or scientists, but because they have lost sight of the limits of their own expertise.”

Pardy makes clear, “Science makes an excellent servant and an imperious master. It is a method of enquiry, not an approved set of conclusions.”

In short, “’Obey the science’ is an anti-scientific sentiment wielded to achieve public compliance with political agendas.”

Cheerleading for the official “experts” is the media. [Jay] Richards and his colleagues explain, “These experts, however, could never have done so much damage without a gullible, self-righteous, and weaponized media that spread their projections far and wide. The press carpet-bombed the world with stories about impending shortages of hospital beds, ventilators, and emergency room capacity.”

The failures of these experts are in plain sight, perhaps even on Nantucket.