Paranoia's Second Wave

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line
The man come and take you away
--Buffalo Springfield

Now that the protest/riot news stream is beginning to dry up, Ron Paul observes that the media is pivoting once again to toward a new narrative of fear: a second wave of the coronavirus.

As he notes, claims of a new viral wave have little basis in evidence. The same forecasters whose initial predictions were off by factors of 10 or more are back at it. Early reopen states are committing suicide. We need to set up makeshift hospitals inside football stadiums. The health care system will be swamped by September.

More evidence of a phenomenon that looks more like a weird group psychosis than lucid conclusions based on science and evidence.

As Ron Paul concludes, "There is something else going on here and it is in no way related to public health."