Essay 2: The COVID Scam and the Formation of the Mind - Fides et Ratio | Reflections on life from a theological and rational perspective
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The Formation of the Mind During COVID
My first assumption during the early months of the COVID period was simple. If people could see the evidence, they would make better decisions. I believed that truth, once placed in the open, possessed a quiet strength of its own. That assumption did not survive contact with events.
In July 2020 I published a call to censure Governor Greg Abbott. The post argued that mask mandates, gathering limits, business closures, and a unilateral contact-tracing contract exceeded constitutional authority.¹ During the same period I published a series of posts examining statewide mortality trends, comparing COVID-19 with prior Texas flu seasons, and …