Remember the chilling lines from T. S. Eliot’s Choruses from The Rock?
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
This seems to be the strategy taken by the authorities and experts who are meant to lead us out of the pandemic.
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