Four years ago, Vice President Mike Pence announced the “fifteen days to slow the spread” campaign.
How did that work out for us?
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal concluded:
None of those policies were successful, and many were gravely damaging.
You don't say?
God damn it, we were warned about this. We were warned about this in great detail by eminently credentialed experts from the world's top medical centers. And these eminently credentialed experts were smeared as "fringe epidemiologists," censored, deplatformed, and fired from their jobs, all to create the illusion of consensus where none existed.
Remember the spectacle of sycophantic late-night "comedians" bleating about "horse paste" and demanding their fellow citizens be denied life-saving medical care, while the ignorant and uninformed demanded incredulously, "Do YOU think you know more than the EXPERTS?"
As a result, tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs, and the resulting unemployment shock is expected to result in hundreds of thousands of excess deaths over the next fifteen to twenty years, disproportionately impacting women as well as black and brown people. School closures will cause today's children a loss of seventeen TRILLION dollars in lifetime earnings, along with shorter lives. Rates of mental illness, self-harm, obesity, and substance abuse in children all soared when schools are closed.
And all this demonstrates why it is NOT the business of the government to protect us against "disinformation." That view implies that there is a group of citizens who already are in possession of The Truth, and all the rest of us have to do is shut up and do as we are told.
But in fact, a free and open debate is precisely how the truth emerges.
We don't need a "pandemic amnesty." We need to dismantle CISA, the Virality Project, and all the other official and quasi-official appendages of our Censorship-Industrial Complex. Those responsible should be investigated, held accountable for their actions and prosecuted where appropriate. We need to make sure this never happens again.
My book The Day the Science Died: Covid Vaccines and the Power of Fear is now available on amazon.
Imagine siding with the totalitarians who want to murder or enslave you and taking their part against family and friends who love you. Or used to.
Nina J. needs to sing "Popular" from Wicked. It would suit her personality. She sounds like a poor man's Christine Chenowith.