Many of us look on in sheer disbelief as we feel the ship of representative democracy beginning to sink. In spite of the withdrawal of Covid restrictions in places like England, Denmark, and Sweden, most countries have not admitted to the failure of their draconian restrictions, and continue to cling to the dangerous and hubristic hope that they can micromanage disease by playing god with people’s lives; more specifically, by applying heavy-handed NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions) that have no substantial support in the scientific literature.