Keep Right — Column by Ralph K. Ginorio
As new and damming information about Anthony Fauci continues to be revealed, I remember what we did to ourselves and to one another in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci stoked a paranoid madness in us in order to
both expand his own personal power and attempt to construct a historically significant reputation for himself.
However, that “eminence grise” of the Wuhan Virus could not have wielded such destructive influence without plenty of willing accomplices. How many Americans sold out their neighbors, friends, colleagues, and blood relatives? How many people do you know who betrayed their trust?
How many of our intimates insisted that we all submit to the:
- Wholesale closure of schools, churches, and businesses (except, of course, for so-called “essential” ones such as Liquor Stores),
- Universal requirement that we mask our faces and socially distance ourselves,
- Demand that we accept experimental drugs into our bodies or be punished?
Never forget those who lost their careers, their good names, their freedom, and even their lives through suicide for daring to insist on making up their own minds about such consequential matters!
This fanaticism was not even excusable as a byproduct of momentary public panic leading to a witch hunt. Public perception of COVID-19 did begin with a fear that this new virus was a germ warfare experiment. No one really
understood what facing a veritable “super germ” would entail. There were no precedents.
As such, the influence of false prophets such as Fauci and the raw fear they sowed grew out of all proportion. Soon, every nation on Earth began to enact radical policies of control that would never have been adopted in more normal times.
In this panic-driven policymaking, psychological warfare techniques were prominently employed. For example, at the time it was widespread public knowledge that the outbreak happened within a “wet (meat) market” fewer than two city blocks away from the most prominent biological warfare facility in all of the People’s Republic of China, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Yet, anyone who even questioned the narrative that COVID-19 spontaneously arose in the bat-ridden filth of a “wet market” was damned as a spreader of lies and misinformation who must be censored and suppressed. Scientific inquiry became subject to political pressure.
What began as a human stampede quickly became the cold routine of someone’s notion of a “new normal”. It went on, in significant ways, for over three years!
No totalitarian dictatorship can rule any nation without significant public cooperation. With close to 20% of the population’s active collaboration, the Jacobins purged France, the Bolsheviks Russia, the Fascists Italy, the militarists
Imperial Japan, the Nazis Germany, the Communists China, the Khmer Rouge Cambodia, the Hutus Rwanda, the Islamists Iran; just to name a few.
Here in the United States, from 2020 through 2023, we saw that many who are close to us will sell us out because they “believe the Science” more than they believe in living harmoniously alongside those of us who hold different beliefs.
Fauci, and those like him, did great harm. But greater harm was done by fellow Americans who during a crisis threaten any dissent from their orthodoxy with violence.
We need to learn from what too many of us did during COVID. We must resolve to never again, under any circumstances, permit such an undermining of our Constitutional liberties! Security can never be bought with lost freedom.
