May 3, 2021
The 9/11 attacks gave us the heightened security theater now on display in all U.S. airports. Day after day for the last two decades, Transportation Security Administration agents have patted down travelers from teens to the elderly, looking for weapons that nobody expects to find. While airplane cockpit doors are now locked to prevent hijackings, the pat-downs remain. And now we have pandemic hygiene theater to give uninformed people a false sense of control and sustain their fear of the virus.
Think of the number of hours schools and businesses spend wiping down surfaces to prevent COVID-19 transmission even though wiping isn’t necessary. Yet Americans continue to spend untold hours and dollars wiping surfaces to provide the appearance of virus protection.
The 9/11 attacks gave us the heightened security theater now on display in all U.S. airports. Day after day for the last two decades, Transportation Security Administration agents have patted down travelers from teens to the elderly, looking for weapons that nobody expects to find. While airplane cockpit doors are now locked to prevent hijackings, the pat-downs remain.
And now we have pandemic hygiene theater to give uninformed people a false sense of control and sustain their fear of the virus.
Think of the number of hours schools, restaurants and other businesses spend wiping down surfaces to prevent COVID-19 transmission even though we ve known since last July this wiping isn t necessary. Yet Americans continue to spend untold hours and dollars wiping surfaces to provide the appearance of virus protection to their patrons.
Veronique de Rugy
WASHINGTON The 9/11 attacks gave us the heightened security theater now on display in all U.S. airports. Day after day for the last two decades, Transportation Security Administration agents have patted down travelers from teens to the elderly, looking for weapons that nobody expects to find. While airplane cockpit doors are now locked to prevent hijackings, the pat-downs remain.
And now we have pandemic hygiene theater to give uninformed people a false sense of control and sustain their fear of the virus.
Think of the number of hours that schools, restaurants and other businesses spend wiping down surfaces to prevent COVID-19 transmission even though we’ve known since last July that this wiping isn’t necessary. Yet Americans continue to spend untold hours and dollars wiping surfaces to provide the appearance of virus protection to their patrons.
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These theatrics continue even though Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted last August that temperature checks are notoriously inaccurate. Nobody should be surprised. We ve known for months that up to 40% of Americans with COVID-19 are asymptomatic.
Our schools also claimed that they couldn t bring the kids back last fall because students must stay 6 to 10 feet apart. I m reminded of this every morning when I electronically agree to my kids following the safety standards.
That s 4 feet more than even the CDC recommended for months. And even the origin of that 6-feet rule is mysterious. It s twice the length recommended by most countries and the World Health Organization.