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COVID-19 on My Mind
American Thinker ^ | 4 May, 2025 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 05/04/2025 4:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The most outrageous tyrannies under the guise of preventing the spread of the disease appears to have been in Democrat-run jurisdictions and in response to major Democrat supporters.

Like most of us, I suppose, the shock to our system and way of life during the government’s response to COVID-19 cannot easily be forgotten. It was our taste of ill-considered government tyranny, a public-health disaster. As more information about its origins and how the disease was handled is revealed, it always gets my attention. In sum, banking on helping defeat Trump, the public-health establishment and media suppressed more credible options for dealing with a disease which was not life-threatening to most in order to promote a vaccine then in the works. The vaccine when it was developed and administered was not terribly effective and has itself caused substantial injury. In the process of locking the country down, the health establishment and government caused the very deleterious effects which the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration had warned against. Those opposing less tyrannical treatment of COVID-19 included Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose role in creating COVID-19 is no longer deniable.

At the outset, I’ll disclose my bias. I never believed the lockdowns which destroyed so many small businesses, detrimentally affected student learning, and caused so much mental illness and economic loss was warranted. My hero was not the press hero Dr. Anthony Fauci, it was John Ioannidis, the most outspoken and best positioned to know this reaction was unwarranted.

It began with a March 17 article in Stat [2020] that suggested governments around the world were taking sweeping and potentially harmful actions to limit the spread of COVID-19 without sufficient data. Then came a May 5 white paper he authored which suggested COVID-19 was not nearly as deadly as initially feared

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1 posted on 05/04/2025 4:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

For leftist politicians it was utopia.


2 posted on 05/04/2025 4:06:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Until we face up to the institutional murder from the CARES Act and the unconstitutional and murderous PREP Act, repealing both, we won’t have begun to make our country more safe.


3 posted on 05/04/2025 4:11:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

“The vaccine when it was developed and administered...”

It’s an mRNA injection and not a vaccine, Clarice.


4 posted on 05/04/2025 4:14:47 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: MtnClimber
It was sure up there as an example of the worst of our collective insanity.

It was just another big step toward tyranny through direct government action and misinformation/propaganda. And to think that a good portion of our population bought into the big fat lie.

Sadly, there are many other examples. Many.

5 posted on 05/04/2025 4:24:39 AM PDT by icclearly
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To: MtnClimber

It will happen again because there were not mass executions after Covid.


6 posted on 05/04/2025 4:31:49 AM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: MtnClimber
It was really bad back in 2020.

There was only a 99.97% survival rate from ChinaVirus2019.

7 posted on 05/04/2025 4:32:57 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: MtnClimber

For my sister-in-law’s funeral service yesterday, someone had created a slide show. One of the images was of her and some friends wearing masks. You could hear soft groaning from everyone in the church. Later, someone mentioned that seeing it came close to triggering PTSD.

What the hell were we THINKING then? Honestly, there were several months when I truly believed that would be our life for years to come — that we’d never return to normal again. (Thankfully, I was wrong.)


8 posted on 05/04/2025 4:37:06 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MtnClimber

What an excellent article.
I pray to God we never forget what the democrats (and their media lapdogs) have done to us and that we turn out with the same passion as 2024 in 2026 and 2028 and vote every damn one of them OUT.

I want to see that evil little jackass, Fauci (and his fuzzy little buddy Tedros), charged under RICO with crimes against humanity.


9 posted on 05/04/2025 4:37:55 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: MtnClimber

Culling the population. Worldwide wanted posters should be up for Fauci, Gates and many others. Murderers masquerading as human beings. The perfect crime against humanity. Nuremberg 2.0 is not justice.

RIP DG, DF, DW.


10 posted on 05/04/2025 4:38:05 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: quantim

Remember...they changed the definition of vaccine to fit the mRNA crap and then lied about that


11 posted on 05/04/2025 4:52:15 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: quantim
Thanks! We must resist this false renaming.

But it worse than that - it's the biological equivalent of a computer virus, ironically, the reverse analogy.

12 posted on 05/04/2025 5:02:22 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Grew up in 3-D/B4TV)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“One of the images was of her and some friends wearing masks.”

To this day there are still some that wear masks. I simply cannot understand the gross ignorance of this. The masks literally stop no airborne particles going into our out of a person’s respiratory system.

The masks are like an infants blanket or Teddy Bear, they simply make the kid feel safe and secure.

Out numbering the mask wearers are those that still believe the covid “vaccine” is safe and should be had by all.

I often wonder which is the greater enemy of the people, the democrat/communist party or the MSM. They both want to see us dead.


13 posted on 05/04/2025 5:02:45 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: MtnClimber

“It came out barely a month before the election, after which the plan from the top was to release the vaccine, presumably after the sitting president was defeated. That way the new president could get the credit for the distribution stage and thus would the pandemic end.”

Ok Clarice, you’re so close. Take the next logical step. The virus release was not an accident. It was a premediated attack on Trump. The Red Chi Coms and their democrat puppets killed millions to get rid of just one man.


14 posted on 05/04/2025 5:08:35 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber
Norway’s top health official recently stated the lockdowns probably were not necessary.

NONE of what they did was necessary, useful, or remotely scientific.

ALL of what they did was tyranny. And all who believed them and cheered on their tyranny, are fools, liars, and/or tyrants/wannabe tyrants themselves.

15 posted on 05/04/2025 5:11:05 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber

When do the Nuremberg II trials begin?


16 posted on 05/04/2025 5:13:13 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: MtnClimber

What we still don’t seem to understand is that the Federal Gov’t shouldn’t be doing anything regarding our health. Eliminate the CDC & the rest. If there’s an emergency, experts can be drawn readily for an ad hoc committee on how to deal with it.

Our money is being pissed away on God only knows what kind of research & these agencies cannot any longer be seen as benevolent.


18 posted on 05/04/2025 6:04:09 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes, not only has rfk jr failed to take any action, but congress has also failed as well.

I’m getting quite critical of POTUS for failing to highlight the crimes and compelling a Mea culpa of sorts by the government to help ensure that it never happens again, to state nothing of liquidating bureaucrats to pressed covid era policies.

Obviously, it could be argued - and will certainly be - there are bigger fish to fry right now. But leadership is lacking here and delegation of actions and a drive to compel action from congress is sorely lacking.

Disappointing and concerning.


19 posted on 05/04/2025 6:29:34 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber

IT WAS A TEST RUN

and the test results were outstanding!

The production run is next... and coming soon.


20 posted on 05/04/2025 6:32:09 AM PDT by Safrguns
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