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Covid Amnesty? No, Thanks.
Leave it to the corporate media to come out for amnesty for all of the poor public policy decisions pushed by the federal bureaucracy, corporate media, and teachers’ unions.
Once data started rolling in and the true scope of its danger was known, COVID became a political cause for the Left, not a public health issue. Public policy and social behavior was no longer grounded in any connection to reality and became a political signifier, and every single awful consequence that has come from the use of COVID as a political cudgel to attack those of us who demanded a rational, measured response is entirely blameworthy. The people who did this must pay a price.
So no, I will not forgive and forget, and neither should anyone else. These were not innocent mistakes, but the result of a plan to exploit people’s fears–fears that the elites did everything to stoke–for their own benefit. Trillions of dollars were transferred from ordinary people to billionaires, children suffered enormous learning loss, lives were ruined, literally. People still cannot enter the US (legally) without a COVID vaccine. It is insane.
They realize most of the things they pushed for — shutdown of schools, of the economy, face masks were wrong. It was known fairly early on that this virus affected the elderly more than the young, but that did not stop hacks like Randi Weingarten from shutting down in-classroom teaching. We won’t forget how they praised Cuomo, who pushed for lockdowns, while denigrating DeSantis for wanting to open up.
Published in General
Musk is African-American, but he’s not Black.
But he’s African.
I still laugh to myself when I think of past Olympics events where American announcers would refer to athletes from Ghana or something, as “African-American.”
Africa is a race. And America is a race. So African-Americans are literally bilingual.
I too have one of those stuck in my memory. I think it was the Atlanta Olympics’ marathon and the announcer was talking about the African-American in the lead, probably a Kenyan.
However whatever the accepted term for people of color is today, it might be quite different tomorrow.
Sigh. Why do you make it your mission to suck all of the humor and cleverness out of Ricochet? It was a joke. It was a funny thing to say.
Insufficiently cynical.
Reminds me of a tee shirt I saw the other day which had this on it:
“ I saw that”
Karma
The Atlantic recently had a conference paid for by Pfizer. The other point made is, we were forced to trust the science, and now the Atlantic article is basically saying give a pass to all of these bad policies. Masks really get me. It’s so obvious they didn’t do jack at the aggregate level. The Atlantic article is strategic positioning for Republican inquiries next year, apparently. The first four minutes of this video.
https://rumble.com/v1qu72y-natalie-winters-on-the-atlantic-calling-for-pandemic-amnesty-for-big-pharma.html
https://www.thesohoforum.org
These debates are supposed to be posted on some reason magazine podcast feed but I can’t quite find it. Supposedly it’s the reason TV feed, but there aren’t any named that. When I fish around in iTunes I don’t see any of these debates on a reason feed.
Dr Drew has been also interviewing all of the people which were dismissed by the “experts”, social media and corporate media on his podcast
If you look at what I have been posting in the COVID-19 forum etc. about the Atlantic article, it’s an op from the Deep State and the Regime to control the damage from the Republican hearings next year.
@garyrobbins
Gary, look at the quoted part in the OP. There isn’t one thing wrong or in accurate in it.