At the beginning of the pandemic, I felt sympathy and pity for those who chose to live in fear. Many had been misinformed by media, politicians and bureaucrats whose investment in accumulating wealth and consolidating power outweighed any loyalty to ethics, truth and public welfare. Now, I believe that maintaining that sympathy may be not only undeserved but potentially harmful, because the fear has evolved into something far more dark and destructive: sadism, deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering or humiliation on another.

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