The past three years of our lives.

"We thought we were free, surrounded by institutions that protected free speech. We had newspapers, the Internet, universities, courts, and think tanks – hundreds of thousands of people whose job it was to be a corrective to mass mania and government overreach.

They failed. Worse, the silence of March 2020 mostly continues to this day.

Meanwhile, a new regime was born out of the catastrophe. It goes by many names: the biosecurity state, the digital leviathan, the security hegemon, rule by the overlords of techno-primitiv ism.

Whatever it is, it bears little in common with anything we’ve previously experienced, though it has a lot in common with ancient depotisms. What began in disease panic mutated into a new way of life that disregards the values of the Enlightenment, particularly individual and universal human rights."

Brownstone Institute