And add to that one helluva job of negative marketing, using scare tactics and bold threats for non-compliance, denying effective treatment (ivermectin, the hydroxychloroquine-zinc-azithromycin protocol, and electrolytes) until far too late in the progress of the disease, the ineffective masks, the lockdowns, and the virtual cession of business, schooling and supply chains.
Something got flattened. It was not the curve.
It’s unfortunate but true that governments everywhere and at all levels attract the type of personality that experiences a sense of satisfaction from directing and controlling the lives of others. In its worst manifestations, the urge to dictate produced human history’s most murderous monsters. In its mildest from, it gives us the nosy neighbors and community busybodies we try to avoid. The many in between had their moment as czars and czarinas who put themselves in charge of others during the COVID pandemic. They had their grounds for acting as petty, and in some instances not-so-petty, tyrants.