"religious fervor eclipsing rational thinking"

Keith Sanders writes in part in the American Spectator,

...The problem with religious fervor eclipsing rational thinking, even when the fervor ostensibly arose from scientific analysis, is that the momentum of supernatural terror, once instilled in a population, will outlast any rational application and cause devastating consequences. We see this in the way that lockdowns have outlasted their original intent of “flattening the curve,” and even persisted for more than a month in areas that had little or no curve to begin with, resulting in unprecedented mass unemployment and destruction of prosperity.

...They are the actions of frightened people attempting to appease something they cannot see and do not understand, using tactics they have been taught — and seem to have largely misunderstood — by an ordained elite who are themselves proven more wrong by the day in their original assessments of this invisible threat and the appropriate responses to it. All the while the visible fruits of our until recently liberal society and formerly explosive economy are sacrificed and burned, the smoke drifting up to the stratosphere in hope of appeasing our new and terrible gods. And like so much fruit and treasure burned in sacrifice by our superstitious ancestors, the smoke just drifts and dissipates, while the treasure is gone forever.

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