The Ministry of Happiness

8/29/23

Visiting your medical provider (who sees and actual MD anymore?) is preceded by a questionnaire on your state of being. “Have you felt feelings of isolation?” now goes along with “Where does it hurt?”  When I did get to see a doctor, (my fourth primary care physician in 3 years) I asked why these questions? She said they are required by the government. HUH?

Putting two and two together, I now get the recent Surgeon General statement on the state of loneliness in the US. It now appears that the state is getting ready to establish programs to address your innermost feelings because, who else is best to deal with them than the federal government?

Here is another state created disaster around which they will create a non-solution that exacerbates the problem resulting in yet another failed bureaucracy that runs on infinitum. Having caused immeasurable harm in isolating people during Covid, they are collecting data confirming their ill ways. This, not to humbly suggest the policies were wrong, but rather to foist upon us yet another massive intrusion into our ability to be free thinking beings.

Coming to you soon, the Ministry of Happiness!