Covid has become a media-driven panic disconnected from facts

Other "Opinion"s offered by Rupert Murdoch's "newspaper":

"Americans have already tired of Biden’s hyper-partisan agenda: Optimism in nation’s future plunges after 6 months"

"Nancy Pelosi's on her last legs"

"Indoor mask mandates would choke big banks coming back to NYC"

"America's silent majority must fight liberals killing freedom of speech"

"NYC restaurants survived COVID only to be destroyed by woke complaints"

"John Lennon's 'Imagine,' blared at the Olympics, is a totalitarian's anthem"

&c ad infinitum.

I tend to agree. You should take the disease seriously, but I don't think lockdowns are justified. This will ruin a lot of businesses and people. If you are afraid of getting infected, you have the option to stay home.

There is problem why no politician will handle it like this. The media for once and opportunists against you will use it to accuse you of subjecting everyone to risk.

By numbers, it is a serious disease, but the reply was out of proportion, the handling hysterical and the readiness to sacrifice liberties very frightening. It paints quite the unstable picture of our political landscapes.