Slight offshoot. Fear was made into a virtue. Really think about that. The fear wasn’t rational for an extreme majority of people, but it was required - and t

Slight offshoot. Fear was made into a virtue. Really think about that. The fear wasn’t rational for an extreme majority of people, but it was required - and that’s true for different reasons depending who you ask. So, of course it was an immediate appeal to authority. You were a good person to be afraid, what an easy excuse that you didn’t need to question or understand anything that because “The Science” had spoken. So I agree with you, but I think the reason it all happened was something other than a normal appeal to authority.