Drop by drop, the intelligence data is being released or leaked, and it shows an administration indifferent to the plight of folks from China traveling west, gullibly accepting the deceptions of the government of China, arrogantly self-confident that it can’t happen here, ignorant of the ease with which a virus passes among the heedless, and unwilling to grasp the dangers making their way here.Īnd all this do-as-I-say-today-or-face-newly-crafted-government-punishment nonsense, which is enforced by reluctant police who would rather chase a bank robber than a jogger in a government-owned park, is not the result of legislation enacted after a broad national debate, nor is it authorized in the Constitution. It probably did originate there, but the Trump administration declined to take it seriously for nearly three months. The government has persuaded nearly all of us, with its selective employment of scientific data, that we are suffering from an unavoidable viral pandemic that originated in China. This is a painful question to ask and answer in these trying times. Could it be we have repeated it so often that we have lost sight of its meaning? Is the United States today the land of the free and the home of the brave? The phrase “the land of the free and the home of the brave” is as American as any one-liner in our history.
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