In 1993, Senator Daniel Moynihan, a liberal Democrat from New York, wrote a highly influential essay titled "Defining Deviancy Down." He was referring to the decline of moral standards and tolerance of violence in U.S. cities, which were experiencing rising crime and an erosion of the traditional nuclear family.  Senator Moynihan argued that these deleterious trends resulted in "defining deviancy down," so that behavior that was once considered deviant was now acceptable.

Moynihan's concept of "defining deviancy down" comes to mind when contemplating our current sad state of affairs, arising from public policy responses to the pandemic. Since March, we have witnessed unprecedented new forms of deviancy, emanating from the ongoing destructive and unethical experiment that is being conducted on us by infectious disease experts.  The tools of this experiment are a series of "non-pharmaceutical interventions," designed by our new bureaucratic masters.  We have referred to this experiment as a new state-run religion, which features a variety of deviant mandatory social distancing policies.

Infectious disease experts, their numerous allies in the media, and virtue-signaling politicians with their lengthy press conferences on how they are "fighting" the virus, have feverishly constructed a false and misleading narrative that conveniently fits their never-ending apocalyptic view of a "crisis."  Every day, newspapers and TV shows are full of stories about a new "spike" or "surge" in "cases" (mostly asymptomatic individuals) and tales of impending doom that the new "cases" will "overrun" our hospitals.  The ongoing existence of a "crisis" and (eight-month long) "state of emergency" justifies the continuance of the experiment and the re-institution of quarantines and lockdowns.