A cruise ship reporting an outbreak of Hantavirus, with a loss of life, brought back memories of COVID and how we responded. Lockdowns, needless nursing home deaths, school closures, isolation, and all the rules, such as distancing and mask requirements. Not a pleasant memory.

Then we have the recent Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee receiving testimony from a CIA whistleblower on the cover-up of the likely Wuhan Lab Covid origin. Dr. Anthony Fauci used his government position to intervene in a CIA report on the lab’s origins, which was connected to funding for the Wuhan Lab. That establishment was conducting “Change of Function” research that could have resulted in the Covid virus.

Shining a light on how misinformation and government actors led to actions we’re still suffering from, it made clear that the top-down government response failed on a massive scale. Yet, this is the type of crisis progressives claim government experts handle best.

To understand how we ended up on this Covid response road, we have to recall the history of top-down government dominance. As I’ve pointed out in “Long Journey to More”, for thousands of years, settled agricultural societies divided people into classes, with an educated ruling class at the top (up to 10%), an illiterate mass, and a smaller artisan-merchant class in between.

The masses lacked the knowledge to dispute what the government told them, and the artisan-merchant class, though often literate, was too dependent on the ruling class’s good graces to offer much dissent—human progress was glacial.