A lot of places were doing their five year retrospectives based on the issuance of Trump’s emergency order. I mark it when The Wife and I were sent home to work from home. We were suddenly reordering our lives so that we could both telework full-time. We had to learn how to become not only husband and wife, but coworkers in a sense.

Looking back, COVID accelerated and intensified sentiments and feelings that were bubbling under the surface. The distrust of the elites and institutions was reinforced by their actions. Their absolute imperiousness against even the most reasoned pushback of their assertions. Their absolute craven cowardice against the mob. Well, the mob whose approval they desperately wanted. My personal goodwill evaporated when the elites and their sycophants kept schools closed well beyond when the evidence showed it wasn’t effective. The education loss will reverberate for decades.

And now we’re living in the backlash. Those who were persecuted under the previous elites now have the whip hand. And just as their predecessors, they will use their power to punish those they consider their enemies.

I still trust most people will do their best during emergencies – right up until the chattering classes and their paymasters get involved.