The Latin phrase “pons asinorum” literally means “bridge of asses,” but for some 300 years, it’s been deployed to mean the critical test of a formula or person, the decisive issue that reveals the essence of what we need to know.
The pons asinorum of politics today concerns lockdowns, no more and no less. If you are wrong on that issue, you can’t be trusted with anything else. If you are correct about that issue, you deserve a listen.
For 31 months now, the issue has been the pons asinorum. An entire generation of public health officials, private corporate big shots, and legions of politicians was flat-out wrong. They locked down their populations, meaning that they threw out hundreds of years of tradition of law and liberty because a handful of “experts” told them to do so. In a seeming instant, schools, churches, and businesses closed, and billions were locked into their homes under the cover of virus mitigation.
They did this because the Chinese Communist Party declared that it was the way to get rid of COVID. For reasons we still can’t figure out, big shots throughout the Western world trusted their word and followed their path.
When the lockdowns finally ended, we faced another round of intolerable coercion. Adults and then kids at no medically significant risk from COVID were forced to accept a shot that had been untested by any normal standard, and told that they were being antisocial by being hesitant about it. Barely 18 months in, manufacturers are cranking out a fourth shot that we know was only tested on eight mice but was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention anyway.
Now, we face the real possibility that many schools will be closed to children and families who refuse to go along.
Something is very broken in the world that would have allowed this to happen. We are left with appalling social, cultural, and economic carnage, including two years of lost education for youth, millions of closed small businesses, millions of fired or displaced workers, high inflation, intolerable government debt, and whole populations of people demoralized due to the loss of freedoms, property rights—even over their own homes, and liberties we once took for granted.
Lockdowns are what started it all. Therefore, lockdowns are the pons asinorum.
I spoke last evening to a group of high net-worth investors about this subject, and the audience was absolutely spellbound, not because my speech was great, but because I was so blunt about the whole topic. It was the first time that anyone in their experience had spoken openly about this outrage. It reminded me that this is all still a taboo topic. This silence must end now. We need not just blunt talk but aggressive investigations and a passionate search for justice. Above all else, we must have ironclad and enforceable promises that such will never happen again.
