Covid-19 and the State
Exposing the purposes of power. When people come to believe that the danger was exaggerated and measures to combat it are barely effective or even harmful, then the state’s power disintegrates and it can only be buttressed by ever-more-draconian controls.
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And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.