The Enlightened v. the First Amendment

The condescending uptalk from the MSM, politicians, flunky-bureaucrats, and some citizens is irritating, at least.  ("Inflammatory" may be a better word.)  They arrogate to themselves the position of being The Enlightened (Illuminati), the Ones Who Will Save us.  After all, they have "The Science"! 

And since there are such--Ones Who Will Save Us--who has need of free exercise?  After all, that worship-thing, well, you can do it in your living room in front of a wide-screen, no?   Have a Bible?  Love Jesus?  Well, then, shut up and sit down.  The Science and the Illuminati have so decreed!!

As it happens, Free Exercise is not quash-able by flunky-bureaucrats, nor casually secularist Governors.  Bill Barr gets it:

...When you’re faced with a potential catastrophe, the government can deploy measures and even put temporary and reasonable restrictions on rights if really necessary to meet the danger. But it still has the obligation to adapt to the circumstances. Whatever powers the government has, whether it be the president or the state governor, still is bounded by constitutional rights of the individual. Our federal constitutional rights don’t go away in an emergency. They constrain what the government can do. And in a circumstance like this, they put on the government the burden to make sure that whatever burdens it’s putting on our constitutional liberties are strictly necessary to deal with the problem. They have to be targeted. They have to use less intrusive means if they are equally effective in dealing with the problem. And that’s the situation we’re in today. We’re moving into a period where we have to do a better job of targeting the measures we’re deploying to deal with this virus....

To the Illuminati and their Karen-esque palm-branch waving fans, such talk is that of a simpleton, or perhaps someone who has not yet heard of Science, Our Savior.

More likely it's from someone who is acquainted with the Permanent Things and has an excellent grasp of history and the real human condition.

Were it only the case that America's Catholic Bishops had such an acquaintanceship and grasp--and courage!!  Or do they also think that salvation is not from the Jews, but from The Science?

Hmmmmm???