Originally posted by loam
The notion that the government needs to protect a dumb populous from itself- at the potential expense of certain long standing liberties that have
served as the bedrock of our founding principles- seems to permeate almost every government policy now.
In isolation, they seem mildly beyond reasonable. In the aggregate, you realize under the right conditions tyranny is a stone's throw away....
It's all quite depressing...

Depressing? Scares the poop outta me it does. Genocide by quarantine and starvation is an established depopulation strategy, usually targeted to class
not just race.