Oh How Easily We Forget the Lockdowns and Mandates

Commentary They say that immediately after World War II it was very difficult to find an Italian who had voted for Mussolini. I guess the same was true in Germany and Austria—former supporters of Hitler were very slow to own up to it. I don’t want to trivialise that terrible war by making inept comparisons, but the COVID-19 malaise that plagued our country (and the rest of the world) after 2020 offers some parallels. By malaise, incidentally, I don’t refer to the disease itself, but to the fracturing of society that arose from our response to it: as a society we have been crippled, perhaps permanently, by a range of disastrous reactions from our politicians and their advisers....