We are forced to hand over our money to the government. We still have the power - and the legal right - to withhold it from businesses that don't deserve it.

One such is Carl's Jr. - the hamburger chain. Which just issued a policy decreeing that Face Diapers must be worn by employees and patrons . . . until the latter get to their anti-socially distanced tables, where they will be allowed to take them off.

This sort of ritual - in the cultic sense - is being performed at restaurants and cafes all over the country. It defies medical sense - because if "the virus" is in the air and if Face Diapers are the only thing keeping "the virus" from infecting and killing people (99.5 percent of whom never actually die) then one should never take them off.

No one should be out and about. People didn't get hamburgers when the Bubonic Plague was about. But we must pretend the Bubonic Plague is about.

It becomes even more obviously ritualistic when you take into account that literally any filthy old rag qualifies as a "face covering" - in the superciliously faux clinical language of these Diapering Decrees.