COVID Fear is the Mind Killer

As famed science fiction author Frank Herbert wrote in his epic series 'Dune,' "fear is the mind-killer." In other words, fear makes you stupid. COVID panic has for two years made a great many of us very stupid. And a select few among us have found our niche in playing off the fear of the rest. But it is well past time to say enough, and reclaim our wits.  Being overweight greatly increases your risk of serious illness or even death due to COVID. So does stressing out about whether COVID or our fear of man issues are more dangerous. We should not be controlled by fear of would-be tyrants any more than we should allow ourselves to be controlled by fear of a virus, however deadly and dangerous it is or is not.