A next step

Let us simply take as an example the matter of wearing a mask: by which reasoning does one come to choose and wear a cloth mask on the lower half of one’s face even while alone driving one’s car or two -wheeler, far from any other person? One realizes then, with some resignation, some anxiety or a jolt of reckoning, that one actually knows nothing clearly, that one is fed but truncated or jarring information that keeps us at the mercy of some invisible decisional hierarchy: in the likeness of hungry chicks awaiting sustenance, we are fed from hour to hour and day to day with a volley of warnings and dire announcements until, as if surreptitiously, one moves or is moved away, alienated, from all possibility of trust and confidence.

Who then, and how, can decide on the fate of this humanity at present?

Can it, must it be, some committee or commission of the United Nations, better funded than others to lavish its supposedly enlightened directives?

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