Hard Choice? Not Really

I hope you feel as blessed and grateful as I do that we don’t live in a large city.

One thing I hope we learn from this virus mess is that God never intended for millions of people to live on top of each other. He expressed His displeasure first at the Tower of Babel thousands of years ago, but we apparently didn’t get the message.

As the virus takes a heavy toll on metropolitan areas, some mayors and governors are revealing their true natures by acting like fascist dictators. Even as we learn Covid 19 rarely harms or is spread by children, they insist on closing schools this fall. In spite of sunlight’s proven lethality on the virus, beaches and parks remain closed in some states. And while mom and pop stores and salons are ordered to remain closed, big box chain stores flourish.

Meanwhile, spousal and child abuse are on the rise. So is alcohol and drug abuse. People who’ve lost hope because the shutdown took all they had are killing themselves. The world’s greatest economy in a generation crashed into depression in less than two weeks. Family finances are in shambles. All for fear over a virus with a 98 percent recovery rate.

“We must obey the scientists!” we’re told. Really? Do you actually want science to rule American policy in a pandemic? Be very careful what you wish for because science says we’re doing this wrong.

Darwinian evolution is taught as scientific fact in public school classrooms (give me an hour with your kid to undo that). It teaches survival of the fittest. Science mandates we open everything, go back to life as we knew it and do as we please. Yes, the virus will run rampant. Sure, a few million people will die – most of them older or with preconditions or both. Is that bad? Data tells us those most likely to die from Covid-19 are the same people who place the greatest burden on our medical system, thereby driving up costs for everyone. Thinning that demographic would be sad, but also highly beneficial on many levels for the rest of the “herd”. And the climate could do with a lot fewer humans too.

“How dare you!!” some shriek in their best Gretta Thunberg voice. “How can you say you’d support a policy so brutal!?” I didn’t. I simply pointed out if we strictly followed science and data, millions would die. “That’s immoral!” Agreed. But science doesn’t care about morality. As a popular pundit often says, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”

But having to decide between cowering in increasing poverty or restarting America’s economic engine before it is too late is a false choice. Wherever given the chance, Americans have shown we can conduct business and simultaneously keep the curve flat and slow the spread. The obvious choice is to trust the American people. We’ve got this. And the politicians at every level of government who don’t trust the people are the ones who need to be quarantined. Preferably on the moon. Any room on the next Space X flight Mr. Musk?