Unable to see the microscopic "enemy" and bereft of a scientifically proven cure, those seeking deliverance from the new coronavirus are left with only their faith that the measures prescribed by health experts -our scientific priest class- will work to keep it at bay. That's all well and good until those who buck the new orthodoxy are scapegoated for the plague.
Comment: It's not that there aren't any safe, reliable, and effective treatments. It's that the media either won't talk about them or they will actively campaign against their use, because they're looking for a particular kind of cure - a vaccine. The silence, therefore, regarding effective treatments is not due to a lack of scientifically proven options. It is merely a means of keeping the demand for a vaccine as high as possible to the detriment of the many for the benefit of the few.
Face masks -the visual symbol of the Covid19 epidemic- have acquired the status of religious fetish for those concerned over the many unknowns about the virus (the reliability of testing, whether 'recovered' patients are really cured for good, and the many other question marks that come with a new disease). In a sea of uncertainty, the face mask is one constant that can be relied upon.
Comment: John W. Whitehead is a constitutional attorney and author who has been saying many of the same things stated in the article above - and in some cases takes an even broader view of how and why Americans are losing their Constitutional freedoms piece, by piece, by piece.
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