Something I’ve been thinking about recently, as Covid prevention has become a deeply held religion for many liberals, is how many they’d be willing to outright kill to stop Covid. I suspect for many it’d be way more than have actually died or will ever die of Covid; that’s what religion does to your brain if not constrained and contained.

After all, many of the methods they propose, such a worldwide, months-long lockdowns, would cause widespread famines in many parts of the world from which many places would never recover. Millions would die and would continue to perish for a very long time after.

But now it’s a holy cause for which no explanation nor justification is needed; as with a Crusade, it’s simply what must be done no matter the cost and no matter how little sense it makes.