David Stockman, in this piece published by the redoubtable Brownstone Institute, casts a skeptical eye on the surge of new fear-mongering and statist control that the Omicron variant has brought on.
Here’s a sample:
In a word, we are in the midst of the greatest and most fraught science experiment of all time, starting with the attempt to completely reconstruct all patterns of normal interaction, the closing of vast institutions on grounds that they are not essential, and now ending with more than 11 billion shots having been administered already around the world.
The private benefit of the vaccination for the elderly holds up but rather than even acknowledge the rapidly fading risk/reward equation for much of the population—most especially the children—the powers that be trotted out a teleprompter reader in his dotage to stoke the public hysteria.
Read the whole, delectable thing.