Even While It Was Happening, It Wasn't Happening

It didn't matter.

This year, for the first time in history, more than 40 governors in the U.S. awarded themselves quasi-dictatorial powers - on the strength of laws hastily designed less than 20 years ago for massive bioterrorism attacks, pressed into service to counter a medical "emergency" that was never an emergency. By the end of 2020, most of the American population was still living under dictatorial rule.

That was of no interest.

Huge numbers of people, in Europe as in America, were placed (without a court order) under virtual house arrest. This was called a protective measure - and it was reported as such, though the practice violated civil-rights rulings going back nearly a century. Tens of millions of people saw their livelihoods snatched from them by officials they never even had the opportunity to confront.

Yes, a handful of states that did not imprison their populations or wreck their economies claimed to have medical results as good as - if not better than - neighboring states that did both. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson went so far as to assert all this on May 5 in the editorial pages of the Washington Post, a main purveyor of coronavirus propaganda. But those claims were never investigated in the mainstream press. They didn't matter.

Now the mega-corporations that supported the "lockdowns" are sucking the life out of the small-business economy that was once the mainstay of the free world. For restaurants, the picture is so bleak that chef and author Edward Lee calls it "the end of the independent restaurant era," and warns that"

we will lose the culture of all of our American cities". [W]e will become a nation of corporate chain restaurants that will look and taste the same in every city.

Culture is under attack from other directions as well. London's theatres, heirs to one of the proudest dramatic traditions in the world, are closed for the first timein modern history - and whether they will ever open again depends upon the whims of politicians. Musicians and other artists have been devastated by "social distancing" rules that never made any sense and have never been obeyed by the powerful.

That doesn't matter, either.

In respectable society, it can't even be talked about.

The U.K. Labour Party's Angela Rayner - last seen threatening to expel "thousands and thousands" of members who don't think their country should be governed by Israel - is now grousing that"

[o]ur children should not have to rely on humanitarian charities that are used to operating in war zones and in response to natural disasters.

You'd never guess that the self-righteous Rayner actually supported the economy-wrecking madness that caused this deepening poverty - in fact, back in May, she wanted even stricter police-state tactics than those the government imposed.

Governments lied to us throughout the year about the nature of the medical threat we faced, about what they planned to do about it, and about what it was going to cost us.

Formerly-esteemed scientists tried to tell us that the hype made no sense. "We're falling into a trap of sensationalism," Stanford University's John Ioannidis said as early as March 23. "We have gone into a complete panic state." The interview containing those comments was soon banned by Youtube, even though Ioannidis is universally recognized as "one of the world's foremost epidemiologists."

Prominent scientists who signed the Great Barrington Declaration suffered a similar fate, smeared as fringe elements promoting "craven lunacy" and a "brutal" attempt to "let people die" - in other words, as Nazis.

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