Commentary
The Latin phrase pons asinorum literally means “bridge of asses” but for some 300 years has been deployed to mean the critical test of a formula or person, the decisive issue that reveals the essence of what we need to know. The pons asinorum of politics today concerns lockdowns, no more and no less. If you are wrong on that issue, you cannot be trusted with anything else. If you are correct about that issue, you deserve a listen.
For 31 months now, the issue has been the pons asinorum. An entire generation of public-health officials, private corporate big shots, and legions of politicians were flat-out wrong. They locked down their populations, meaning that they threw out hundreds of years of tradition of law and liberty because a handful of “experts” told them to do so. In a seeming instant, schools, churches, businesses closed, and billions were locked into their homes under the cover of virus mitigation….