ROGER SIMON: Two Excellent COVID Books for Christmas?… Why Not?

What honest person can deny that the U.S. and global responses to COVID-19—dubbed here for some time the Chinese Communist Party virus—have been an unholy mess?

Vaccines/no vaccines, lockdowns/no lockdowns, masks/no masks, social distancing/no social distancing, school/no school—it’s hard to see there has been any difference. As Alex Berenson, a man who has justifiably raised his reputation by being canceled by various Big Tech gangsters, often puts it, in the end, “a virus gonna virus.”

It’s almost as if no one had done anything it all would have been the same—or better.

That’s the conclusion—with certain caveats—that I came to after reading two extremely informative and timely books regarding the pandemic that are being published almost simultaneously on or about Dec 1.

They also ratified something I admittedly already believed—big government is the enemy of the people. Or, as Ronald Reagan famously quipped: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

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