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Posted on 09/13/2025 3:30:51 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Democrats so enjoyed forcing Americans to do silly things during COVID, like starving their children of oxygen and letting Grandma die alone, that they leapt right back to their hectoring at the Senate hearing this week with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Blithely unaware that public health authorities have become objects of seething hatred throughout the land, Democrats -- and a few Republicans -- harangued Kennedy for not trusting "science" and "experts."
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., began the idiot-fest by accusing RFK of prevaricating during his confirmation hearing when he claimed to be "pro-safety and pro-science." In fact, Inspector Clouseau charged, the secretary was promoting "fringe conspiracies."
Where have we heard about "fringe" theories before? As I recall, the last time was at the beginning of the pandemic, when actual experts (Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Medical School biostatistician, Jay Bhattacharya, doctor and public health economist at Stanford, and Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist at Oxford) published the Great Barrington Declaration, calling for focused protection for the vulnerable (old people) while leaving the rest of us alone.
As everyone now knows -- other than short-haired Karens in Manhattan claiming to have "long COVID" -- that is exactly what we should have done.
Sweden followed this unscientific "dangerous fringe theory," imposing no lockdowns, no school closures, no masks and no social distancing. It ended up with the fewest excess deaths of all major European countries .
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.: "Did you say that the CDC was, quote, 'The most corrupt federal agency in the history of the world?'"
Kennedy: "Not the history of the world, but definitely within HHS."
Warnock: "Did you say that?"
Kennedy: "I did not say that, but I did say it's the most corrupt agency at HHS and maybe the government."
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.substack.com ...
If they want RFK to be more like Fauci he should get a pardon.
The sooner we invalidate the senile puppet bindes pardon the better so we can indite, convict and sentence that piece of garbage Fauci.
This is a powerful essay. Reminds me of the early Ann Coulter...
Dammit.... “there won’t be as many deaths!” ..../sarc
“the fewest excess deaths”
For some reason that phrase tickled my funny bone. LOL...
The left wants a lying apostle of satan.
Covid is an example of what I refer to as an issue with “inertia.”
Ever so often, you get issues where all the powers to be are pulling in the same direction. It’s a tug of war where one side is disproportionately strong.
With Covid you had an election year and Democrats were exploiting this disease ruthlessly (who can forget the likes of Schumer, Pelosi, Cuomo all beating the drum as loud as possible?). The NIH/CDC saw it as their 9-11 moment, with their budget and scope of authority expanding dramatically. Big pharma stood to make a lot of money. The news media had their burning church with people jumping from the rooftop on a Sunday story. Internationally you had organizations like the WHO cheering this on. You had multiple pandemic movies released along the last two decades and people were tuned in. In fact, much of the early speculation about the origin etc of Covid mirrored movies. And when the federal government offered free money to the big corporations like the airlines for doing nothing essentially (for the shutdown) the last bastion of resistance crumbled.
When something like this starts to slide, it’s like an avalanche.
10% real - 90% BS.
In 1980 Covid would have been labeled as a bad flu year and that would have been the end of it.
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