Maybe ‘virus’ is really experiment in control

Do we have viruses? You bet, but a pandemic? If we actually had a pandemic it seems there would be sick people all over the place. Spending time out and about, other than all the colorful and sometimes clever masks, people look normal to me. They aren’t hacking, coughing, sweating, or feebly dragging themselves along struggling to suck air into their virus-ravaged lungs.

I don’t know anyone who is sick and no one I know knows of anyone who is deathly ill with the covid virus. I read the obituaries every day on my iPad and nearly all the people that they tell us die from this virus share being older, feeble and sick. They are all likely to pass from this life, virus or not. A dear friend of mine recently passed from cancer troubles at an advanced age. It wasn’t a virus. He was, like me, old.

What if what we have here isn’t a pandemic, but an experiment in control? If so, it is scary that it seems to be working on a lot of people. Could it be that people in power are showing us who is really in charge of every aspect of our lives in spite of our constitutional liberties, freedoms and right to self determination? Show me the virus clause in the U.S. Constitution.

It might not be too much of a stretch to assume that people might well be the victims of tyrants our forefathers warned us about when in 1796 George Washington wrote in his farewell address, “they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

JEFF COOK Springdale