text:  as a public health matter, because recasting every human foible or evil as a medical issue does have a point. It is actually not pointless. It's just that the point isn't to actually save lives or make anybody healthier. The point, as always, is to increase their power. And what we know, what we've seen all too vividly, is that the government can claim for itself essentially unlimited power when it comes to combating so-called public health crises.