March of 2020 
Posted on 02/16/2023 10:16:35 AM PST by Heartlander
Eight leading critics of the United States’s COVID-19 response have called for an investigation of the many failures of policy architects and key decision makers — at institutions ranging from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration to universities and hospitals — over their repeated mishandling of the pandemic.
Given the immense harm inflicted on our society by the follies of a ruling class and their expert advisers who never failed to make a wrong decision when presented with the opportunity, as well as the fact that lives are still being destroyed by their lingering policies , we can only hope this blueprint does not go ignored.
Dubbing themselves the “Norfolk Group,” the association of scholars includes such prominent names as Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, UCSF physician Tracy Beth Høeg, Johns Hopkins University surgeon Marty Makary, and Indiana University School of Medicine immunologist Steven Templeton.
According to the Norfolk Group’s website , although initially organized by Brownstone Institute in May 2022, the eight members of the group have since worked free from outside influence to draft the 80-page document they published earlier this year, “Questions for a COVID-19 Commission.”
Presented as a series of summaries and questions pertaining to key elements of U.S. COVID policy, the document, in effect, lays out a thorough indictment of the consistent incompetence of our ruling class while also raising concerns over the possible influence on policy by special interests such as teachers unions and drug companies.
Regarding natural immunity , the authors ask, “Why did the CDC downplay infection-acquired immunity, despite robust evidence for it?”
In respect to school closures, they ask, “Why were schools and universities closed despite early evidence about the enormous age-gradient in COVID-19 mortality … and early evidence that school closures would cause enormous collateral damage to the education and mental health of children and young adults?”
On that matter, they also wonder, “Why did the CDC incorporate policy language proposed by leaders of teachers unions on the scientific and public health aspects of school reopening without soliciting expertise of outside scientists in public health, infectious diseases, or other related fields?”
When discussing lockdowns , they inquire, “Why was so much influence on public health policy accorded to Drs. [Francis] Collins and [Anthony] Fauci? They control the largest source of infectious disease research funding in the world. How many infectious disease scientists, who should have been strong voices during the pandemic, kept quiet for fear of losing the research funding on which their livelihood depends?”
In their section on epidemiologic modeling , they demand, “Why did world leaders overly rely on models that made unverified assumptions about the pandemic’s trajectory rather than trying to verify these assumptions and their implications?”
When addressing COVID-19 vaccines, they raise questions such as, “Why did many organizations continue with mandates through summer and fall of 2021, despite data demonstrating both waning efficacy of symptomatic infection and reduced long term ability to curb viral spread?”
Regarding masks, they state, “Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the evidence that masks did little if anything to stop the spread of respiratory viruses was uncontroversial,” before summarizing a few studies demonstrating this and asking the obvious: “[W]hy did public health officials and agencies promote the idea that masks would be effective against SARS-CoV2?”
In its entirety, the Norfolk Group’s “Questions for a COVID-19 Commission” serves as a blueprint for the kind of investigation our country needs. Just don’t expect the Biden administration to do anything about it.
They did it because they could and because we allowed it.
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It’s cute that Dan thinks “investigations” are going to do fvc$kall. Jeeze Louise.
Prayers for critical mass on this. For those 85 percent who obeyed without question…. You gave them a holocaust level of approval to disable or kill with this. Good job.
This very simple answer is:
this was NOT a medical pandemic. It was a Political Pandemic.
Investigation my rear end, bring on the Nuremberg II trials and lets get on with the executions
At this point I would just like all the covidiots vaxxers come out and tell us how we were so wrong for being wary of the clot shot.
Please come back and tell us again how everyone must get the clot shot, how masks work and that the children will not suffer developmentally from wearing masks.
OWN YOUR DECEPTIONS AND LIES! You are the very kind of people who would have turned in Anne Frank.
“this was NOT a medical pandemic. It was a Political Pandemic.”
Right. And it was done in the name of Science - Political Science - where hedging and distorting facts and data is allowed, to advance the agenda.
They did it because they could and because we allowed it.
You are correct, but it goes FAR beyond just a “power play” by a bunch of wannabe dictators who thought they were saving us from ourselves.
This was one of the two most corrupt things I have ever witnessed in my nation in my lifetime - the other being the 2008 housing bubble. This is far worse because the 2008 housing bubble and subsequent looting of our national treasury did not kill hundreds of thousands of people who DID NOT have to die (not to mention the injury, fear, and all the other associated problems).
Our public health officials, politicians, and medical community DELIBERATELY prevented any kind of treatments that have now been proven safe and effective in order to continue the fear so that big pharma could deploy a failed product and make tens of billions of dollars AND they could get rid of a President they hated.
They killed Americans for $$$$ and politics. It should not only be investigated, it should be prosecuted as negligent homicide at the very least. This goes far beyond fraud or malfeasance/corruption.
Vitamin D works. They just ignored it. Plenty of solid studies show it would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives here in the US.
HCQ/Zinc or even Quercetin and Zinc work. They lied about the first and ignored the second.
IVM works. They lied about it too.
Steroids helped people in respiratory distress and they are used for many respiratory illnesses but not Covid?
They did not just lie about this stuff causing untold death and misery, they took the medical licenses away from doctors who did the right thing!
We should all be pissed. There are some very powerful people who chose to murder their fellow citizens for profit and politics. We absolutely need to investigate it!
I prefer to go straight to gallows.
Investigations yes. More importantly, there must be trials and CONVICTIONS for many, and loss of job/career for many more.
Hang these evil base-turds first.
Then investigate.
I’m OK with that.
There’s that word again. Investigations.
And that’s exactly where it will end. Now move along.
I would add that the origins of C19 needs to be found.
A Covid Commission will be another Warren Commission and 9/11 Commission. The distinguished members of the commission will be establishment big state, big medicine loyalists. It will be a whitewash. Too much money involved and spread around to too many players.
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