Virus lockdown killing the nation's economy is "An elephant scared by a house cat."

As our nation remains locked down, mostly by insane Democrat governors, keen analysts like Roger Kimball have stated what should be obvious to all intelligent Americans--but sadly isn't:

Back in March, before the destruction of more than 30 million jobs and tens of thousands of shuttered businesses, before the missed graduations, and soaring suicide and drug-addiction rates, I wondered when people would realize that the real crisis was not the virus, but our politician-and-media fired panic over the disease? 

For the past two months the country has been consumed with fear and panic.  When it finally ends, look for many to feel shame at our collective gullibility...and rage against those who exploited it.

Kimball uses the image of an elephant scared by a house cat.  Frightened, the elephant jumps off a cliff and dies.

At the daily briefings the "expert" Anthony Fauci dispensed ever-more alarming scenarios of the countless deaths that awaited us—the models said so!—unless we cowered in our homes until...well, some Democrat rulers said "until a cure is found."

This prompted a few skeptics to ask if we'd found a cure for SARS, or the H1N1 flu, or the swine flu, or MERS, or...you get the idea.  Of course we haven't, and can't, because the flu strain is slightly different every year.  So as a result, we should shut down our entire country for a couple of decades!

No, of course not.  Obviously not.  Ridiculously obviously not.  So obvious a 5th-grader could see it.

You get the idea.

Of course what will happen is, as NEW virus deaths approach a few dozen per week, the Lying Mainstream Media will simply pivot to the next ghastly, deadly, horrible disaster or outrage--as the NY Times did by claiming our military "celebrates White Supremacy."  Yeah.

The other option is if the Dems win in November.  In that case, all the scary stories about the virus will instantly, magically vanish.  Suddenly "the experts" will unanimously declare that it's perfectly safe to open all businesses again, and go back to normal life.

It's just as the Mainstream Media does every presidential election:  If a Republican is president, every other story is about the awful, tragic, heartbreaking crisis of homelessness.  If the Democrat wins, suddenly you can't find a single story about homelessness in the MSM.  It's like it stopped being a problem, overnight.

Cool, eh?