“We must protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated!”
This statement, proclaimed by public health officials and politicians, then parroted by members of the populace, perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of the period of history from 2020 to 2023, when the people of the world were subjected to an unprecedented level of fear-mongering propaganda across all media platforms. The use of propaganda to galvanize support for war has gone on since time immemorial, but in this case the “evil enemy” was not a foreign leader or group of people but a virus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), better known as COVID-19. Adopting a wartime stance toward a virus with a mortality rate similar to that of the seasonal flu, governments all over the planet secured widespread compliance with mandates dictating the behavior of formerly free human beings.
In Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times,, Laurie Calhoun traces the history of the crisis from its inception in 2020, analyzing the various stages of what transpired in real time through a series of twenty-six essays first published at the Libertarian Institute website and collected in one volume. Together, these investigations constitute an intellectual journal which chronicles all that we have been through and serves as a cautionary tale for the future. Calhoun compares the policies being implemented and the nature of the crisis to other crises in recent history, and considers philosophical issues such as what morality and rationality require. As she attempts to make sense of what is going on, Calhoun illuminates the manifold contradictions serving as the basis for vicious shaming campaigns, pitting citizens against other citizens, alienating people everywhere, and attacking the very concept of civil society.
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Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times
“We must protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated!”
This statement, proclaimed by public health officials and politicians, then parroted by members of the populace, perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of the period of history from 2020 to 2023, when the people of the world were subjected to an unprecedented level of fear-mongering propaganda across all media platforms. The use of propaganda to galvanize support for war has gone on since time immemorial, but in this case the “evil enemy” was not a foreign leader or group of people but a virus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), better known as COVID-19. Adopting a wartime stance toward a virus with a mortality rate similar to that of the seasonal flu, governments all over the planet secured widespread compliance with mandates dictating the behavior of formerly free human beings.
In Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times,, Laurie Calhoun traces the history of the crisis from its inception in 2020, analyzing the various stages of what transpired in real time through a series of twenty-six essays first published at the Libertarian Institute website and collected in one volume. Together, these investigations constitute an intellectual journal which chronicles all that we have been through and serves as a cautionary tale for the future. Calhoun compares the policies being implemented and the nature of the crisis to other crises in recent history, and considers philosophical issues such as what morality and rationality require. As she attempts to make sense of what is going on, Calhoun illuminates the manifold contradictions serving as the basis for vicious shaming campaigns, pitting citizens against other citizens, alienating people everywhere, and attacking the very concept of civil society.