Anyone looking for quotations highlighting the good to be found in times of trouble would have no difficulty finding them. I might have opened this column with one of those celebrated aphorisms, but that mechanism is too reminiscent of the only member of our school board who enjoys holding the chairmanship — who always comes to meetings with an erudite epigram all ready to toss out, as though it came to him spontaneously. Better to do my own thinking than to choose a hackneyed slogan from an ideological inventory. It’s bad enough to head the column with an allusion to a more pedestrian quip telegraphing my drift.
For all my fulminations about the recent intrusions, inconveniences, inconsistencies and idiocies of assorted government responses in the name of public health, the endless pandemic paranoia has spawned a host of undeniable benefits. Weighing those benefits against the evils incidental to mass hysteria helps to brighten a shadowy epoch.
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