Lockdown as the ideal solution to every pandemic problem is a great example of the self-oppression that we’ve learned to cultivate internally. It’s a destructive approach imported from an authoritarian country that had never been tried before in human history on a large scale and that traumatized millions upon millions while in most places having only negligible benefit.

But it feels like doing something, and that feeling is what matters now more than what it actually achieves. In other words, the more it hurts, the better. And that it harms the most vulnerable the very most (kids and young adults) is a feature, not a bug, of the lockdown mentality.

Liberals need some sort of religion to blunt this kind of crap. They really, really do.