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This pandemic has politicians treating the public like children

During a news conference last week, Gov. Cuomo put up a chart highlighting where the novel coronavirus is being spread. It turns out, a shocking 74 percent of new cases were caught at gatherings in private homes. Restaurants and bars, meanwhile, accounted for just 1.43 percent.

So the governor banned indoor dining, specifically in New York City, which has the second-lowest case rate and the second-lowest hospitalization rate of any region in the state. 

Makes sense? Of course, it doesn’t. Cases have been rising sharply in our state, a few months after Cuomo published a memoir celebrating his triumph over COVID-19. He must’ve felt he had to do something. And something is what he did.

His actions — shuttering businesses that weren’t responsible for most of the spread — are a symptom of the wider infantilization of the American people by elected officials. Politicians wield a vast power for its own sake: power over subjects whom they consider too stupid to object or to make rational decisions for themselves.

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3 thoughts on “This pandemic has politicians treating the public like children”

  1. I can’t understand why any upstanding Republican would obey these orders or agree to be vaccinated. The pandemic is a Democratic hoax and the way to prove it is to ignore the guidelines, restrictions and vaccinations and to come out stronger than ever!

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