our months into our national coronavirus hysteria, the media’s appetite for scare-graphs, doomsday headlines, and wild predictions of death and destruction continues unabated. The people themselves, however, are a different matter. Silently, across the country, everyday citizens are beginning to realize that the mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures come at a profound cost.
On a recent cross-country relocation trip, I had the opportunity to speak with dozens of strangers, friends, and family from all walks of life and hear their views of the current crisis. The vast majority of these people couldn’t name anyone they knew who had died from the illness. Most of them didn’t even know anyone who was hospitalized.
But all of them knew of someone who has lost a job.
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