Against Faucism

Reason’s Robby Soave writes, “The U.S. government is unlikely to ever defeat COVID-19 in the same sense that it defeated Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. In the meantime, the government is claiming more and more power for itself; this power is being wielded by the agencies least accountable to the democratic process, and it is being used to enact harmful restrictions on people's lives that will apparently last for years, for decades, or forever. Americans still remove their shoes and belts in order to board air planes, even though the event that inspired this policy happened more than 20 years ago—and even though the evidence against this policy is overwhelming.

"It's kind of like we're halfway through World War II, and you decide, well, I think I've had enough of this," said Fauci." We will never defeat covid in the sense that we defeated Nazi Germany. If this is what we're waiting for, we'll wait forever.https://t.co/PSCwS3lE7n

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) December 20, 2021

The Faucists clearly want to make masks just as permanent as the TSA: Indeed, they have said so explicitly, as Fauci just did. At every stage of the pandemic, public health bureaucrats have uttered some version of the sentence Now is not the time to ease up. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not as long as they are in charge.”

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