COVID-19 and the Banality of Evil

“Compulsory obedience can especially be seen in how the Democratic Party has changed since the election of President Biden in 2020. Before he entered office, COVID-19 was more accepted as an important and legitimate issue.”

It is time to call it what it is: the banality of evil.

I am talking about how the layers of government in the United States and elsewhere are (not) responding to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis that continues to kill and disable and reinfect en masse. COVID-19 is worse in some cases than an “airborne AIDS.” Available therapies are often (but not always) diminishing, and immune systems are suffering.

COVID-19 is known to attack T cells and to damage greatly the brain, the heart, the nose, the liver, and the lungs. It can cause blood clots and strokes. It vastly accelerates aging. It harms fertility. It causes psychological distress. Its consequences on the body are being further documented and discovered daily. I and others have predicted that COVID-19 will decimate populations and possibly be an extinction-like event, especially given that basically all children have been infected.

The “banality of evil” phraseology is appropriate because evil (and “evil” is certainly a very strong word) is happening vis-à-vis the impersonal, indirect, codified, and orderly nature of bureaucracies.