A career despot, Anthony Fauci, has been in government nearly his entire adult life. So it’s no wonder that Fauci complained in the Washington Post this week that the reason why COVID-19 became a pandemic and spread throughout the United States isn’t because it’s a virus and that’s what viruses do. No. It’s because Americans are too free. They are too independent and they have too much liberty.

Asked whether the current spike in coronavirus cases in some parts of the country (not all) is to be blamed on our tradition of individualism or President Donald Trump’s refusal to impose national mandates (like masks and stay-at-home orders, it’s not even clear he has the constitutional authority to do so), Fauci said the ‘independent spirit in the United States of people not wanting to comply with public health measures has certainly hurt us a bit.’

Got that? We are ‘suffering through this virus’ because we are just too darned free.

Fauci also went on to complain that too many people continue to treat the virus like a ‘hoax.’ ‘There are people in various parts of the country who still believe that [coronavirus] is a hoax, that it’s fake, even when in their own state the hospitals have been overrun with patients in the hospital beds and in the intensive care unit,’ he lied.

 It’s not that the virus is fake, of course it isn’t. What is upsetting and even maddening to an increasing number of people is the arbitrary, non-science-related lockdowns, business closures, and other mandates (like masks) that clearly aren’t mitigating the virus’ spread but are killing off entire industries and countless small businesses.

Worse, these goofy business-related policies, ‘the virus can’t hurt you in Walmart but it’ll get you if you go to a gym or a restaurant’, are nonsensical, devastating to the business owners, and are being made by government representatives who aren’t losing a single dime’s worth of income.

How can anyone take these people, and this flu-like virus seriously when those who are making the rules a) aren’t losing any money themselves, and b) don’t seem to take it serious themselves?

Nevertheless, Dr Faucet went on to say that Americans should decline celebrating Christmas this year, like he advised against gathering for Thanksgiving, though tens of millions did and there was no Thanksgiving COVID spike.

When did life on earth become a zero-risk endeavour? People consider and try to mitigate risks every single day, when they decide to get into a vehicle; take a flight; get on the subway; walk down the street; go into a business that might become the site of a mass shooting; etc. We figure we’re smart enough to take into consideration a virus that, despite the fact that most people are doing what they’ve been asked to do, is still spreading. Free people get to make these decisions. Enslaved people don’t. by JD Heyes, Source