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During the entire past two years of Covid hysteria I never stopped traveling. “Work from home” wasn’t a privilege awarded to me. My love of logic and language was perpetually bothered by a frequent airline announcement: “Federal law requires” mask mandates, a statement most untruthful. There is no law. Congress passed no new legislation; there is only regulation, the demon spawn of power-hungry politicians and a bloated bureaucracy.

For those who can’t be bothered with the democratic process of elected officials proposing bills and deliberating, voting and enacting legislation, the immeasurable, and not enumerated, power of the bureaucratic state is an attractive work-around. The past two years have been a textbook case of the most effective process: use fear, proclaim the actions are for the public good, attack the non-compliant as “anti-science” and a threat, rinse and repeat. The sheer power of this process has given many groups “Covid envy.”

The concept of “Covid envy,” a phrase I hope will become a common pejorative along the lines of “soy boy” or “beta cuck” or “Adam Kinzinger,” is not new. George Orwell put the philosophy to literature. The nomenclature is ultimately a justification: big government bureaucracies may supersede the rights of citizens so long as the public is assured these extreme measures are for our own security and safety. Clinging to beliefs like “freedom” and “unconstitutional” poses a threat to the public good. ...

The ice age is coming. Terrorists are coming. The coronavirus is coming. Climate change is coming: it’s all the same. Surrender to the state.

Our freedom is greater. Let us protect it.

The corporate woke oligarchy has proven that they will simply ignore the Constitution whenever they can, but I still think it would be useful to have at least two amendments to make it perfectly clear when they do it:

1. The right enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are never, under any circumstances, to be suspended, not even for a moment, and especially not for any "state of emergency".

2. No regulation made by any unelected bureaucrat is ever enforceable. Only duly elected representatives may make regulations.