ROGER KIMBALL: COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda.

[T]he Wuhan Panic is a textbook case of the Rahm Emanuel principle that you never want a good crisis to go to waste. Emanuel helped Barack Obama weaponize the government against freedom in the aftermath of the financial meltdown of 2008. The Dems and their megaphones in the media are trying to do the same thing now in the face of the spread of the Wuhan Virus. In about three weeks, maybe four, it will all be over and many people will feel sheepish about their overreaction. In the meantime, everyone seems to be signing up to be an extra in The Seventh Seal.

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Related: James Lileks is estimating “three bad weeks” as well. “That’s my prediction. But I was wrong before.”