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Reposted on Zero Hedge<\/a> (60k+ viewers, 850+ comments), Ron Paul Institute<\/a>, Planet-Today.Com<\/a>, Infowars<\/a>, Vigilant Fox<\/a>, One News Page<\/a>, Burning Platform<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed Covid Tyranny<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, March 11, 2025\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans\u2019 freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest. Despite all the forced sacrifices, most Americans contracted covid and more than a million were listed as dying from the virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won\u2019t Make Us Safer\u201d<\/a> was the headline of my first salvo against the pandemic hysteria, published on March 24, 2020 in the Daily Caller<\/em>. I scoffed at President Trump\u2019s proclamations about being a \u201cwartime president at war with an invisible enemy.\u201d Wartime presidents too easily pretend they\u2019re on a mission from God to scourge all resistance. I warned: \u201cThe pandemic threatens to open authoritarian Pandora\u2019s Boxes. Permitting governments to seize almost unlimited power based on shaky extrapolations of infection rates will doom our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the start of the pandemic, the Mises Institute was in the forefront of condemning policies that eradicated prosperity in the name of public health. In a May 19, 2020 Mises piece headlined, \u201cHacksawing the Economy<\/a>,\u201d I noted, \u201cThe political response to COVID-19 is eerily similar to Civil War surgeons\u2019\u00a0rationales for hacking off arms and legs\u2026. As long as politicians claim that things would be worse if they had not amputated much of the economy, they can pirouette as saviors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Living in the Washington area, I had a front row seat for many of Covid-19\u2019s biggest absurdities<\/strong>. After federal officials whipped up panic, \u201cI Believe in Science\u201d lawn signs popped up like mushrooms, soon accompanied by \u201cThank You, Dr. Fauci\u201d placards. Those signs looked to me like frightful decorations of a Halloween that never ended.<\/p>\n

Thoreau provided my lodestar for the pandemic: \u201cA man sits as many risks as he runs.\u201d I knew that isolation would make me too ornery for my own good. I had survived the flu plenty of times in prior decades and I didn\u2019t reckon covid would deliver my coffin nails. I was a co-leader of a Meetup hiking group which continued hiking almost every weekend throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n

But politicians made such jaunts more difficult. In February 2021, President Biden decreed that face masks must be worn in national parks. Probably 95 percent of the National Park Service\u2019s 800+ million acres is uncrowded 95 percent of the time. The only \u201cevidence\u201d to justify the mandate was that many Biden supporters were frightened or enraged whenever they saw anyone not wearing a mask. The new mandate quickly became an entitlement program for junior Stasi members.<\/p>\n

I told attendees on my hikes that masks were optional but kvetching about other hikers wearing or not wearing masks was prohibited. Biden\u2019s edict helped turn the C & O Canal Towpath\u2014one of my favorite hiking venues\u2014into a hotbed of self-righteousness. That Towpath was ten feet wide in most places, but it was the principle of the matter. I had numerous people furiously screaming at me because I wasn\u2019t wearing a facemask as I strolled outside. If mask hecklers were especially persistent, I would shrug and ask them: \u201cHow is your therapy going?\u201d<\/p>\n

Washingtonians pride themselves on being smarter and better educated than most other Americans (okay, maybe excepting San Francisco and Boston). They instinctively knew that total servility was the only hope for surviving the pandemic, and maximizing hatred was the key to compliance. After Biden ordered 100 million adults to get injected with the covid vaccine, Biden derided the unvaxxed as aspiring mass murderers who only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you\u201d with covid. (The Supreme Court struck down most of that illegal vax mandate.)<\/p>\n

Thanks to Biden\u2019s fear mongering, almost half of Democratic voters favored locking the unvaxxed into government detention facilities, according to an early 2022 Rasmussen poll. The same survey showed that almost half of Democrats favored empowering government to \u201cfine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy\u201d of Covid-19 vaccines on social media. The Biden administration unleashed a massive censorship campaign on social media and beyond that effectively muzzled millions of Americans who doubted the feds.<\/p>\n

At that point, most American adults were vaxxed, but the injections were catastrophically failing against the latest covid variant. There were a million new covid cases per day\u2014mainly among the vaxxed\u2014and most covid fatalities were occurring among the fully vaxxed.<\/p>\n

But \u201cbest and brightest\u201d Washingtonians retained their absolute faith in a command-and-control response to the pandemic.<\/strong> District of Columbia Mayor, Muriel Bowser, decreed that anyone who was not vaccinated and carrying proof of the jab was banned from entering any restaurant, bar, gym, or meeting space in her domain. Affluent Washingtonians happily rushed to get free software apps so the government could track them and their health status. That new app had a spiffy logo that quickly became the ultimate status symbol.<\/p>\n

I stopped hosting hikes within DC city limits: I would be damned if I would condone Bowser\u2019s biomedical caste system. But I did venture into DC in early 2022 to pay respects to an editor who was fleeing southward. Exiting at the Dupont Circle metro station, I briefly stepped out of a torrential downpour into an upscale coffee shop. Every table hosted a hefty warning sign: \u201cMasks on & Vaccine Cards out!\u201d Patrons were hectored: \u201cAll cafes and restaurants\u2026 are REQUIRED by the Mayor\u2019s Office to check vaccine cards of dine-in customers. Thank you for helping us comply with local regulations to remain open!\u201d Why didn\u2019t that establishment just advertise the slogan: \u201cCome Sip with the Gestapo!\u201d I skedaddled before anybody asked to see a vax passport.<\/p>\n

I was mystified why people would pay $6.50 for a coffee to be treated worse than parolees. Dupont Circle was home to many of DC\u2019s best educated residents. The more graduate degrees they amassed, the more submissive they became. Flourishing your vax card proved your moral and intellectual superiority over anyone who balked at bending over again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it was a different story in Anacostia, the poorest part of the city, where one of the unsung heroes of the pandemic emerged. Blacks had a much lower vaccination rate and the mayor\u2019s edict effectively made many of them second-class citizens. Bowser, Fauci, and a PBS film crew pounded on front doors in Anacostia and hectored residents to get injected. A guy in his 30s came to the front door of his row house, saw Fauci and the TV cameras, and condemned the entire covid carnival: \u201cY\u2019all campaign is about fear. You all attack people with fear. That\u2019s what this pandemic is.\u201d He scorned the speedy vax approval: \u201cNine months is definitely not enough for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with.\u201d Actually, the Biden White House had browbeat the Food and Drug Administration to unjustifiably grant final approval to the Pfizer vax. With the video cameras rolling, he angrily told Fauci and Bowser: \u201cThe people in America are not settled with the information that\u2019s been given to us right now.\u201d Watch the PBS Fauci \u201cVaccine Outreach\u201d Anacostia brawl here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fauci and the PBS film crew probably thought that exchange exemplified the type of fools who refused to submit and be saved. Fauci justified covid mandates because average citizens \u201cdon\u2019t have the ability\u201d to determine what is best for them. But despite getting any and all boosters, Fauci was personally ravaged by covid<\/a> at least three times. Fauci\u2019s frauds began to be exposed, including his role in covertly bankrolling the reckless gain-of-function research that escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and killed seven million people worldwide. Instead of receiving a Nobel prize, Fauci was grateful that\u2014on President Biden\u2019s final day in office\u2014he received a full presidential pardon for any and all of his crimes committed for the prior decade.<\/p>\n

But what sort of savior scientist needs a presidential pardon, anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A virus with a 99+ percent survival rate spawned a 100 percent presumption in favor of despotism. The government has no liability for the injections it mandates or the freedoms it destroys. The Covid-19 pandemic should teach Americans to never defer to \u201cexperts\u201d who promise that granting them boundless power will keep everyone else safe. In the long run, people have more to fear from politicians than from viruses.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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