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#Preview:#SpecialReport: The illogic of the Covid lockdown, burdensome for the powerless, prosperous for the powerful, as commanded by the "unelected." Victor Davis Hanson.

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

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#Preview:#SpecialReport: The illogic of the Covid lockdown, burdensome for the powerless, prosperous for the powerful, as commanded by the "unelected." Victor Davis Hanson.

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)


https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying/dp/154164753X

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0:00.0

This is John Bachelor.

0:02.0

In a lengthy conversation with Hoover Scholar, Victor Davis Henson, over two weeks, we

0:06.6

touched on many aspects of the gap opening between citizens of the United States and the

0:12.6

government, especially what Victor calls the unelected members of the government.

0:17.5

Ood during the virus, for example, made rules that were illogical.

0:22.4

A mom and pop store had to shut, so people wouldn't spread the virus by shopping there,

0:27.8

but the big box store stayed open and other inconsistencies.

0:32.1

Here's Victor.

0:33.7

Well, it had this idea that we were going to give to the unelected based on what the CDC

0:43.4

or the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases on the Anthony Fauci said was important

0:50.3

or was imperative to save us from this pandemic.

0:53.4

And how that filtered out, John, was that if you were in my local town and you sold

0:58.3

shoes in a mom and pop store or you had roses in a flower shop, they shut you down because

1:04.6

they did not want people coming to your store and spreading it.

1:07.4

But if you went a mile away to a huge Walmart which had shoes and had flowers and everything

1:14.2

else, it was wide open with the thousand people in it.

1:18.8

So it was in the same thing was true of medical practices that individual doctors and their

1:27.3

practices could not make informed decisions about whether somebody should be vaccinated

1:32.3

or not or whether somebody should have access to a particular protocol that they thought

1:37.5

might be a facet.

1:39.2

It was the entrance into every aspect of our lives that they pretty much favored the

1:46.1

powerful and the wealthy, big pharma, big corporations.

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