Promulgating and enforcing petty, even absurd rules, is a time tested way for the tin pot dictators who claim to govern us to exercise their arbitrary power. As this author explains, it's also an effective way to convince us that a system that transfers more and more money and power to the top of the social heap is simply the way the world works, and we all must simply accept it. It's been said that in France, the government is afraid of the people. In this country, the opposite is true.

SARS-Cov-2 has exposed all the unfair, stress-inducing rules and laws in the US that should not come back if and when we get through this pandemic. And it has also revealed our worst people.