https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/courage-vs-covid-jack-kerwick/
The present year is the Year of Fear. It is the year of raw, wildly irrational fear.
For sure, the inexhaustible fear-mongering on the part of opportunistic political partisans in the Government-Media-Industrial-Complex has exacerbated, exponentially exacerbated, the fears of tens and tens of millions of Americans. Yet the elites have not, strictly speaking, caused this fear.
They have only revealed it for all of the world to see.
To put this in terms with which most of us have long been familiar, the transformation of a cold virus into an existential crisis legitimizing the indefinite revocation of the United States Constitution and the reduction of the Land of the Free to an internment camp—and one in which its prisoners seem only all too happy to observe “Social Distancing” protocols while cowering behind their masks—has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that most people really are ridden with fear.
Fear is universal. It is at once necessary and desirable—as long as it is oriented toward objects that warrant its attention.
In other words, when the fear is reasonable, when it is proportionate to the danger posed, it is fulfilling its natural function.