The Plague -Where ignorance is bliss...........

   Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold,
      The best lack all conviction,
   while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
                                                                                Yeats.
  I look at my morning newspaper and see a picture of a group of young adults who should know better, crowded on  a Vancouver beach with no distance at all between them.   We line up, maintaining our distance to get into the grocery store, only to find once in there, some boor pushing in ahead of us to squeeze the tomatoes.  Until the penalty for not wearing a mask became significant, my count revealed about one in five people wore a mask.  The threat of a several hundred dollar fine changed that and now most people are wearing masks.  The devastation that is being inflicted on the elderly did not bother many.
   The resentment of the mob at being given good protective advice shouldn't be surprising, given that there is an army of idiots out there called anti-vaxxers, who want to eliminate the greatest contribution that medicine has ever made, immunization.   Their ignorance is astounding.  Millions of dollars of public funding are expended on tests and treatments of no proven value and the mob is clamoring for more and yet millions resent being required to wear a mask for public safety even if not for their own.  Somehow, they see this as an infringement of their rights, which they see as including contaminating anyone within range.   Many want to remove all restraint including defunding the police. The permissive, self indulgent society is beginning to unravel.  As Yeats predicted, the centre cannot hold.  Societal control ls increasingly in the hands of the uber-liberals who keep society quiet with abortions and drugs.
   Just look at what is going on around you and despite the fake news, it is obvious that the centre cannot hold. 
   The decline is accelerating.