What
if the government has it wrong — on the medicine and the law?
What
if face masks can’t stop the COVID-19 virus? What if quarantining the healthy
makes no medical sense? What if staying at home for months reduces immunity?
What
if more people have been infected with the virus in their homes than outside them?
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What if there are as many
credible scientists and physicians who disagree with the government as those
who agree with it? What if the government chooses to listen only to scientists
and physicians who would tell it what it wanted to hear? What if the government
silences scientists and physicians, and even fires one, who attempt to tell it
what it didn’t want to hear?
What
if the government wants to stoke fear in the populace because mass fear
produces mass compliance? What if individual fear reduces individual immunity?
What
if a healthy immunity gets stronger when challenged? What if a pampered
immunity gets weaker when challenged? What if we all pass germs and viruses —
that we don’t even know we have — on to others all the time, but their immune
systems repel what we pass on to them?
What
if the COVID-19 virus has run its course and run into natural immunities? What
if many folks have had symptom-free episodes with many viruses and are now
immune from them? What if the government refuses to understand this because it
undermines the government’s power to control us?
What if government orders to
nursing homes and assisted living facilities to accept the sick and contagious
are insane? What if the same government that micromanages nursing homes and
assisted living facilities knows that they are not hospitals and are not
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What
if the government makes health care decisions not on the basis of medicine or
human nature but statistics? What if reliance on the government’s statistics
has made many folks sick?
What
if we’d all be healthier and happier if we make our own choices with
our
own physicians rather than the government making choices for us? What if it is
un-American for the government to tell you how
to
care for yourself? What if it is equally un-American for you to follow the
government when it intrudes into your personal choices?
What
if the Supreme Court has ruled many times that your health care decisions are
private, personal and to be made between you and your physician? What if the
Supreme Court has also ruled many times that your private health care decisions
are none of the government’s business?
What if we never elected a
government to keep us free from all viruses, but we did elect it to keep us
free from all tyrants? What if the government — which can’t deliver the mail,
fill potholes, stop robocalls, or spend within its income — is the last entity
on earth into whose hands we would voluntarily repose our health for
safekeeping? What if the government won’t admit that its understanding of
science is colored by politics?
What
if the government has misunderstood its mandate? What if the government thinks
it can do its job by keeping us safe but unfree? What if — according to the
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence — government’s first duty is
to safeguard our rights? What if there is no legal basis for the government to
keep us at home or to close our businesses?
What
if the government gave itself the power to interfere with our personal choices?
What if that self-imposed power violates the basic constitutional principle
that the government derives its powers from the consent of the governed? What
if no one consented to a government that interferes with our personal choices?
What if our personal choices to take personal chances have never needed a
government permission slip?
What
if the Constitution was written to restrain the government? What if all in
government — local, state and federal — have taken an oath to uphold and comply
with the Constitution?
What if the government
decrees that liquor sales are essential but clothing sales are not? What if the
government decrees that abortions are essential but orthopedic surgery is not?
What if the government decrees that music stores are essential but the free
exercise of religion is not?
What
if these decisions about what is essential and inessential are for individuals
— and not for the government — to make?
What if to the barber or
short-order cook or retail sales person a barbershop and a luncheonette and a
clothing store are essential? What if to those who love God, the
free exercise of religion is essential?
What
if the government makes essential whatever serves its friends, enhances its
wealth, maintains its stability and removes obstacles to its exercise of power?
What if the Constitution — with its protections of our rights to make free
choices — is an intentional obstacle to governmental power?
What
if America’s founders and the Constitution’s framers chose liberty over safety?
What if the government doesn’t like that choice? What if the government only
nominally endorses it?
What
if — when the pandemic is over — the government remains tyrannical? What if —
when the pandemic is over — folks sue the government for its destruction of
life, liberty and property only to learn that the government gave itself
immunity from such lawsuits? What if — when the pandemic is over — the
government refuses to acknowledge its end?
What
if — as Thomas Jefferson said — the blood of patriots should be spilled on the tree
of revolution at least once in every generation? What if we nullify the
government that has nullified our rights?
Reprinted with the author’s
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Andrew
P. Napolitano [send him mail], a former judge of the Superior
Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge
Napolitano has written nine books on the U.S. Constitution. The most recent
is Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential
Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty. To find out more
about Judge Napolitano and to read features by other Creators Syndicate writers
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