Dear Editor,
There’s a lesson to be learned from the pandemic.
The lesson does not concern the virus, already on the decline globally and whose lethality is a fraction of that of other diseases.
It’s not about media maintaining a 24/7 death toll scorecard in lockstep with government.
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And, it’s not even about the millions of lives ruined economically.
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Instead, the lesson learned is how quickly, thoroughly, and unquestioningly people obey authority, even in safe rural areas.
We have become a community of lecturers, tattlers, and germophobes who panic if someone so much as places his foot several inches beyond a duct-tape line.
In terms of thinking for ourselves, the government can do that for us now.
There is no hope.
Robin Brunet, Langley
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