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Washington Post Complains That Conservatives and Libertarians Are Preventing Future Pandemic Lockdowns
gateway pundit ^ | 3/8/2023 | mike lachance

Posted on 03/08/2023 7:39:06 PM PST by bitt

The liberal Washington Post is deeply upset that Conservatives and Libertarians are standing in the way of future pandemic lockdowns.

This is an excellent reminder that the liberal media gleefully supported shutting down the United States during COVID and would absolutely love to see it happen again.

If Conservatives and Libertarians are standing in the way, they deserve our thanks and admiration.

FOX News reports:

Washington Post torched on Twitter after complaining health officials have limited powers: ‘Medical fascism’

A new Washington Post report slammed “conservatives and libertarians” on Wednesday for working to legally block future pandemic lockdowns and other epidemic related mandates after seeing their effects during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The paper accused them of engaging in a “populist rejection” of pandemic measures that have left American’s public health institutions “defanged” and unprepared for a subsequent pandemic.

Critics of the Post and severe COVID-19 protocols brutalized the piece on Twitter, claiming the public health institutions promoted “medical fascism,” which prompted the conservative pushback…

The article, by Lauren Weber and Joel Achenbach, made the complaint, “Not even the president can force federal agencies to issue vaccine or testing mandates to thwart its march.”

It then blamed right-wingers, saying, “Conservative and libertarian forces have defanged much of the nation’s public health system through legislation and litigation as the world staggers into the fourth year of covid. At least 30 states, nearly all led by Republican legislatures, have passed laws since 2020 that limit public health authority.”

The story hammered the point that “health officials and governors in more than half the country are now restricted from issuing mask mandates, school closures, and other protective measures or must seek permission from their state legislatures before renewing emergency orders,” thanks to conservatives.

Allowing everything to be shut down was a huge mistake which should never be repeated.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: covid19; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; lockdowns; pandemic; pandemiclockdowns; q; qbeyoundthetrees; qbitt; qtard; scamdemic; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 03/08/2023 7:39:06 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

“you betcha!”


2 posted on 03/08/2023 7:39:26 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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It is not clear yet that the U.S. economy will survive the last lockdowns.

I hope to heck that the petty tyrants imposing the next lockdowns won’t survive that.


3 posted on 03/08/2023 7:42:55 PM PST by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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They’re extremists! Terrorists! Freedom lovers!


4 posted on 03/08/2023 7:43:11 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Let the WaPo lock itself down and leave me the f alone.

Do they not understand Diversity?


5 posted on 03/08/2023 7:43:11 PM PST by Paladin2 (abs)
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To: bitt

UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people - May 11, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg


6 posted on 03/08/2023 7:46:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To hell with “public health authorities” and the civilians who cheered them on.


7 posted on 03/08/2023 7:46:34 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: bitt

That’s right, we are.


8 posted on 03/08/2023 7:49:08 PM PST by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: bitt

Had the lockdown not been abused we would not have as powerful a voice. They don’t get it and perhaps they never will.


9 posted on 03/08/2023 7:50:34 PM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: bitt

Sociopaths have no right to rule.


10 posted on 03/08/2023 7:51:14 PM PST by Bayard
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No person or persons who do not have a disease should ever be quarantined, and The Nuremberg Declaration on HUman Medical experiments should be made into law.

WE WILL NEVER AGAIN ACCEPT INDISCRIMINATE QUARANTINE OR INOCULATION MANDATES.

WE NEVER AGAIN WILL ACCEPT THE MANDATED CLOSURE OF BUSINESSES OR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.


11 posted on 03/08/2023 7:52:07 PM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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Conservatives and Libertarians Are Preventing Future Pandemic Lockdowns

Oh gee darn.

12 posted on 03/08/2023 7:52:20 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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There has never been the slightest proof that this Chinese communist “lockdown” concept is even useful for an epidemic.
This is an entirely new concept in epidemic management.

Brought to you be the Chinese communist party. THEY pushed it because they didn’t need to stop a disease. They needed to lock the nation indoors to stop the growing and spreading 2019 protests in Wuhan and Hong Kong.

Our deep state was happy to play along to overthrow Trump by wrecking the economy.


13 posted on 03/08/2023 7:53:24 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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“as the world staggers into the fourth year of covid...” lol.


14 posted on 03/08/2023 7:54:08 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Clemenza
To hell with “public health authorities” and the civilians who cheered them on.

Some of them were scared ****less by the media. But I don't consider that an excuse for irresponsibility (which is what they accused us of).

15 posted on 03/08/2023 7:54:24 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: JennysCool
The way the CDC and government did the lockdown was nuts.

It could have worked had our borders been immediately sealed, all flights and ships stopped and 2 week quarantines for anyone entering the country.

Quarantine anyone showing signs of the virus.

Training in the proper wearing and decontamination of MOP gear.

But they didn't.

Doing nothing would have been better than doing what they did and what they will do, given the excuse.

16 posted on 03/08/2023 7:57:40 PM PST by Mogger
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The Compost sure has gone FULL RETARD since Tucker started pumping out the truth about J6. Let the far lefties panic. It will wake them up.


17 posted on 03/08/2023 8:21:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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Doing nothing would have been better than doing what they did and what they will do, given the excuse.

Well, the dirty little secret is you don't actually have to have a virus at all. Just have your people at the CDC mark down -- and instruct hospitals to mark down, with financial incentives -- all flu and respiratory disease patients and fatalities as "Covid." Then make sure your "'Covid' patients" are hospitalized with other vulnerable and compromised people. Also, make certain that, because of "Covid," you instruct hospitals not to conduct urgently needed surgeries of all kinds to avoid spreading the "virus." And then count those who succumb to their conditions as "Covid cases."

There's lots more you can do. You'll figure it out.

Easy peasy.

18 posted on 03/08/2023 8:21:45 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: bitt

And your point is?


19 posted on 03/08/2023 8:36:24 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Conservative and libertarian forces have defanged much of the nation’s public health system

The reporters unintentionally acknowledged that the public health system has fangs.

20 posted on 03/08/2023 8:42:39 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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