{"id":14456,"date":"2020-03-24T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=14456"},"modified":"2020-09-17T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:14:09","slug":"pandemic-security-theater-is-self-destructive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/pandemic-security-theater-is-self-destructive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Security Theater is Self-Destructive"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Renewal <\/a><\/h3>\n

Pandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won\u2019t Make Us Safer<\/a><\/h1>\n
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James Bovard <\/a> Contributor<\/span><\/div>\n

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Last week, President Donald Trump proclaimed that \u201cwe are at war with an invisible enemy<\/a>,\u201d and on Sunday he said, \u201cI\u2019m a wartime president<\/a> \u2026 This is a different kind of war than we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

COVID-19 is a deadly threat and it is folly to shrug it off as \u201cjust the flu.\u201d Unfortunately, politicians across the nation are adapting foolish policies that are the equivalent of World War I mass charges into machine guns. Like those attacks that left millions of soldiers pointlessly wounded or killed, many of the responses to the coronavirus pandemic futilely sacrifice Americans\u2019 freedom and prosperity.<\/p>\n

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