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How COVID-19 conspiracy theorists are gaining credibility
You’ve handed over all of your liberties to someone else. And you’ve done it on your own free will.
It’s all we’ve been seeing for the last year-and-a-half now. COVID-19, this highly transmissive and rapidly evolving disease, has forced us to change the way we move, the way we think, the way we live. It has forced us into isolation as we continue to watch the number of bodies pile up all around the world, terrified that we or someone close to us might be its next victims.
It is the unpredictability of this disease that makes it so horrific. You don’t know who might have it, how badly it can strike you, how many people it might affect in a short amount of time and how quickly it can change your life from one of total freedom to one in which leaving your own home is considered an illegal act.
And it is because we fear what might happen, not just to us but also to those close to us, that we have chosen to follow all the newly-imposed rules, as strict and as unconstitutional as they may seem. This disease has created a global emergency and it is for times such as these that governments should be able to take extreme measures. Because sometimes people don’t put the common well-being on top of their own self-interests so someone needs to be there to keep everyone safe.
