COVID-19 would ultimately kill more than one million Americans. The elderly. The immunocompromised. There is no questioning the reality of the toll this virus inflicted on people with pain, suffering, and grief. Rather, this episode asks a different question—not whether the virus was dangerous, but whether the response was proportionate. Not whether government should have acted, but whether the actions taken were consistent with constitutional governance. Not whether emergency powers exist, but whether emergency ever ends.
