Posted on 01/05/2024 11:10:08 AM PST by SJackson
Four years after the pandemic hit, officials are just starting to tell the truth about their panicked and destructive reaction to it. The lockdowns that were imposed worldwide (with the exception of Sweden and a few other countries) ran contrary to the longtime conventional wisdom that the main responsibility of the public-health system in a pandemic is to keep people calm and society functioning. Our public-health officials did the opposite. Intentionally. The hysteria they generated led to hundreds of thousands of non-Covid excess deaths, massive economic and social harms, and, worst of all, an unprecedented disaster in education.
Francis Collins, who was the head of the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic and is now a science adviser to President Biden, recently made a remarkably frank confession:
If you’re a public-health person and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life. It doesn’t matter what else happens. So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recovered from. . . . This is a public-health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset, and that was really unfortunate. It’s another mistake we made. Okay.
Collins’s tardy mea culpa is welcome, and so too was the testimony last month of Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, during the country’s independent public inquiry into its Covid response.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
This isn’t an admission.
It’s a modified limited hangout.
LOL! We never listened to their lies.
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"Mistakes were made". Where have I heard that before?
Sorry. No sale.
Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed how...
I suspect the whole thing was concocted. Regardless, a good chunk of the populous saw thru it.
The others were caught up in the frenzy that destroyed relationships and families.
who...
I might be willing to consider amnesty.
For anyone willing to confess, demonstrate remorse, make restitution.
But Deep State hasn’t, does not, will not repent.
So be it.
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Spare us this b*ll*hit.
Mistakes were made, indeed. Any apology is unacceptable because they were warned repeatedly and not just ignored the warnings they actively fought and argued with dissenters, planted fake stories, lobbied for censorship, ridiculed people, passed regulations restricting people from public life without “vax card” and further dividing and coercing people - the entire thing was a psyops campaign.
I personally do not forgive them for not looking into whether the Ivermectin/Hydroxychloroquine protocols would save lives. It was very easy to administer and there were literally 100,000’s of new potential recruits every month to enroll in a double blind placebo study. Just take 20,000 people and give half of them the medication and half of them placebo pills. See which group recovered faster. Check viral loads. Check symptoms. Check deaths. See if the drugs were effective by any quantifiable measurement. Either it worked or it didn’t but the fact they blocked even a conversation about it is unforgiveable “from a public health perspective”.
Screw these people. Personally I think the drugs probably worked, but the fact that 99.5% of people survived Covid it would have been hard to prove whether it saved lives - but they may have proved that it would hasten recovery time and that is a pretty good surrogate and/or confirmation if it showed a modest reduction in mortality.
They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They messed with supply chains and emptied store shelves, while the elites partied on yachts and Martha’s Vineyard.
They queered women’s sports and the military, and made the citizenry pay for it.
They sexualized schoolchildren, and persecuted parents at school board meetings.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.
Do not forget what they have done.
Do not forgive them.
They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmareof the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best the Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us.
Project.
Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).
DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity.
Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a “public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
(Remember, they are the very same people who ignore a pubic health emergency aka AIDS.)
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.
NEVER FORGET.
REMEMBER…..in NOVEMBER!
“make restitution”
Monetary restitution and a lifetime ban including holding any public office—elected or staff—even dogcatcher.
IOW they LIED. And they knew they were lying. We should have their bodies hanging from lamp posts.
You're a better man than I. This is just what they are admitting. I wanna know what they have left out and haven't told us yet.
((( HOLDING BREATH )))
Did NR speak out at the time????????
well said
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