There is only a pandemic if people believe there is one

All measures taken  to restrict freedom seem reasonable to people who are afraid.  They are afraid because they listen to the media.  If they asked their friends and colleagues if they knew of any detailed COVID cases, they would find there aren’t any.  You need detail because otherwise they are just reading of cases in the media again.  You need sons and daughters talking about their parents dying and explaining how the care homes and hospitals accelerated their deaths using wrong treatments – as they usually do, but just on a far bigger scale this time, and with more brazen indifference to human life and comfort.

The reason people trust the media is hard to fathom.  This an epidemic of misplaced trust.  If people knew how to think for themselves, this event would already be over.

The power people grant to media to dictate to them is truly terrifying.  Now that is something to be afraid of, if you want to be afraid of something.