Six years after the coronavirus pandemic began to rip through the U.S., spreading death and sparking draconian shutdowns, the country still has not had a full accounting of the dystopian restrictions the government imposed to try to control the virus — and the public.
A coalition of civil rights groups says it’s time for that reckoning.
They have launched the COVID Justice Resolution, a call for Congress to officially repudiate government “overreach.” They say it’s not an attempt to assign blame — there’s enough to go around — but to reassert constitutional boundaries that slipped during the pandemic.
“There have never been any apologies,” said Jeffrey A. Tucker, a leader of the effort and founder of the Brownstone Institute. “These kinds of wounds are festering, and real, and widespread. I don’t believe there will ever be healing from what happened until we get some culturally significant institution saying very clearly ’This was wrong.’ That has to happen. And, think about it, it has not happened.”
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