“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation,” wrote the 20th-century English philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell, “can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Our lingering experience with the pandemic proves the truth of his words. Governors like Tom Wolf, Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, and the inimitable Gretchen Whitmer appear to be enjoying a sustained serotonin high as they drive families and friends apart, wreck businesses, steal livelihoods, deny us our freedoms, and negate our basic humanity while they go about their privileged lives. There is outright cruelty in what they’re doing to us. For virtually all of 2020, it has been COVID all day, every day, 24/7, as new cases “soar” and the death toll mounts. That’s the sum total of the news dinned into us by the country’s propaganda organs. It’s substantially free of any scientific …