{"id":382113,"date":"2021-12-17T02:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-time-to-abolish-emergency-covid-19-powers\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T02:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T23:34:01","slug":"its-time-to-abolish-emergency-covid-19-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-abolish-emergency-covid-19-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"#It&#8217;s time to abolish &#8217;emergency&#8217; COVID-19 powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#It&#8217;s time to abolish &#8217;emergency&#8217; COVID-19 powers<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>COVID is over. Oh, not with Anthony Fauci. Not with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>. Not with the sour-faced Karens who have enjoyed the sense of meaning \u2014 and power \u2014 it\u2019s given them. But with normal people, especially outside the big urban areas, it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic scandalized its readers by reporting that this week. In an article titled \u201cWhere I Live, No One Cares About COVID,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/12\/where-i-live-no-one-cares-about-covid\/620958\/\">Matthew Walther wrote<\/a>: \u201cNo one cares. Literally speaking, I know that isn\u2019t true, because if it were, the articles wouldn\u2019t be commissioned. But outside the world inhabited by the professional and managerial classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many, if not most, Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over, and they have been for a long while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And with good reason. I confess that in the early days, I was a COVID hawk. With China reporting a 4 to 5 percent mortality rate, there seemed reason. (In fact, I should have reflected more on the untrustworthiness of information from China, especially after the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship suggested that COVID was a lot less scary than we were told.)<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, and rationality in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, is about changing your opinions when you learn new facts. And what we\u2019ve learned is that COVID is somewhat worse than the flu but not nearly bad enough to justify the enormous, expensive and disruptive changes we\u2019ve endured.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/mask-sign.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"People have grown tired of COVID-19 rules like mask mandates.\" class=\"wp-image-20521031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/mask-sign.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/mask-sign.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/mask-sign.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People have grown tired of COVID-19 rules like mask mandates.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, the damages wrought by lockdowns and social isolation \u2014 medical, in terms of reduced exercise, missed medical screenings and increased drug and alcohol consumption, as well as psychological, in loneliness and anxiety \u2014 may have been worse than those wrought by COVID itself.<\/p>\n<p>Also, most of the nostrums offered by the experts and Karens are nonsensical and don\u2019t work. Masks outdoors, where COVID doesn\u2019t really spread anyway? Plexiglas screens everywhere? Shut-down public water fountains and a wide variety of service changes in hotels, restaurants and airplanes that are attributed to COVID but really about saving money?<\/p>\n<p>People have seen through this, and they\u2019re over it. (And not just in the United States \u2014 a friend in London reports that everyone there is cheerfully going unmasked, crowding into pubs and generally ignoring whatever rules remain nominally in force.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/soccer-masks.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A crowd of masked and unmasked people attending a soccer game in London on December 15, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-20520798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/soccer-masks.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/soccer-masks.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/soccer-masks.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A crowd of masked and unmasked people attending a soccer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> in London on December 15, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Action Images via Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And now the media are trying to rev up fear about the Omicron variant (so-called because naming it the Xi variant would have upset the Chinese) but without much luck. From what we know, the Omicron variant isn\u2019t nearly as lethal. The typical symptoms, mild weakness and a bit of muscle pain, seem rather like those from the vaccines. As it spreads rapidly, it will leave a huge cohort of people with natural immunity or, if they\u2019ve been vaccinated, an enhanced immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the powers that be have revealed themselves to be dishonest and inept. Fauci lied about masks at the beginning. Andrew Cuomo sent COVID patients into nursing homes (it made money for his contributors), which caused thousands of elderly people to die. Scarcely a day goes by without some bigshot \u2014 California Gov. Gavin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Anthony Fauci himself \u2014 being found breaking his or her own rules on masking, social distancing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>School kids are forced to eat their lunches outdoors and wear masks while adults gather in bars, restaurants and sporting events. The entire COVID <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>aratus is collapsing under the weight of its own absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>And most people by now have had COVID or know many people who have. It\u2019s not smallpox, it\u2019s not Ebola; in many people it\u2019s not as bad as the flu. In 40 percent of cases, a study recently published in JAMA Network Open found, it\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2021\/12\/14\/COVID-19-asymptomatic-cases-study\/3931639492511\/\">entirely asymptomatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kathy-hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Gov. Kathy Hochul's indoor mask mandate in New York was met with opposition from several counties.\" class=\"wp-image-20520859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kathy-hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kathy-hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kathy-hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s indoor mask mandate in New York was met with opposition from several counties.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pennink<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People have noticed and rebelled. And authorities are cracking. Gov. Kathy Hochul just backed down after her effort to impose a statewide mask mandate drew overwhelming opposition. Businesses said they wouldn\u2019t cooperate. Local officials said they wouldn\u2019t enforce the rule. Hochul caved, saying she wouldn\u2019t force counties to go along. Righty pundit Matt Margolis called it a \u201cspectacular failure,\u201d and it was.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak, facing broad resistance from its workers, suspended its vaccine mandate for employees. And Colorado\u2019s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said no to a mask mandate, declaring, \u201cThe emergency is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is. And now that it\u2019s over, we need to claw back all the power seized by various institutions in the name of emergency. And when that\u2019s done, we need a searching inquiry into how the power was exercised \u2014 an inquiry with consequences.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Oh, not with Anthony Fauci. Not with the media. Not with the sour-faced Karens who have enjoyed the sense of meaning \u2014 and power \u2014 it\u2019s given them. But with normal people, especially outside the big urban areas, it\u2019s over. 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