A short guide to justifying re-lockdown | Spectator USA

Fear is gripping the American public health and media establishments: they are losing control. States are belatedly (and far too tentatively) easing their coronavirus lockdowns, many without having met the absurd CDC benchmarks for doing so. Customers are joyfully returning to previously shuttered restaurants and parks, some even discarding that symbol of subjugation: the outdoor mask.

The mainstream media and health experts are not going down without a fight, however; their newfound power over almost the entirety of human life has been too exhilarating to give up now. Their reaction to the current rebellion provides a glimpse of the strategies that will be deployed during the much-hyped second wave of infections this fall in order to shut the economy down again.

via spectator.us

This will look prescient if there is no second wave. If there is, not so much. It looks like China definitely is having a second wave. But that’s a very different country in many ways, thank God.