My letter to the editors of the Wall Street Journal about Covid

 

A couple of weeks ago, there was an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, where the author wrote about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and how most of the world forgot it when the pandemic petered out and life returned to normal.  I begged to differ at the time, but thought little of it afterwords.  Then, the WSJ published some letters to the editor, which basically agreed with the author’s premise that once the pandemic was over, it would be basically forgotten.  Now, that got my back up.  Below is the letter I just wrote to the editors of the Wall Street Journal.

I have to say, I was appalled at both the op-ed, and the letters to the editor, which opined that we will all forget the Covid “pandemic” in a short while, when life returns to normal.  This worldwide pandemic was much different than the 1918 flu, in that, with “guidance” from the Communist-Chinese directed WHO, governments all over the world forced their people to abandon schools, workplaces, and businesses to remain under “house arrest” for months.  Governments all over the world, but especially in the wealthier countries of Europe and America, forced their formerly-free people to give up their liberty, cover their faces in public, order food and household necessities online, and work from home.  An entire generation of children lost their childhoods, their friends, their parents and grandparents, and their social development, encouraged by the fearful teachers’ unions who were afraid of their students.

We who suffered through the last three years will never forget the Holocaust visited upon us by Governments the world over.  We will never forget the experimental “vaccines” forced upon us by governments and huge pharmaceutical companies, who are relieved of liability for all the thousands of sudden cardiac deaths of young, healthy athletes and just ordinary people.  We will never forget the colleges who mandated their young students be injected with the mRNA shots that they have no need for.  We will never forget the thousands of police, firefighters, nurses, doctors, EMT technicians, and airline pilots who lost their jobs for refusing the harmful shots.

We will never forget this modern-day Holocaust, which has affected far more than the 6 million Jews and others who perished in the Nazi gas chambers.  We will never again let our governments ruin our lives, and our society, by making us fear a virus which cannot be stopped by anything we do, and which has a 99.9% survival rate.  We will never forget, and we will never again comply with government edicts which take away our Liberty.  You in the “professional, managerial class” may forget, but we the Citizens of America, will never forget.

We will never forget, and never forgive the governments who did this to us.  It should never happen again, but if it does, then America is truly doomed.

P.S.  I am a Jew, and I compare what has happened to Western Civilization with the Holocaust.

[originally posted at RushBabe49.com]

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  1. Rodin Member
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    Good letter. The WEF is not done with us, so Holocaust comparisons may not be out of order. Freedom was killed. Killing biological life usually follows killing freedom. 

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  2. Scott Wilmot Member
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    Great letter @rushbabe49. Do you think any government or BigPharma officials will ever be held to account for this travesty? Did they publish your letter?

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  3. Hang On Member
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    What’s even more amusing will be the reaction of these same people if the debt ceiling leads to a government shutdown. Shutting the government down is horrible. Shutting everyone else down us ok.

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  4. Caryn Thatcher
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    The first paragraph is reasonable and deserves to be included in the responses to the WSJ article.  The rest is overwrought and ridiculous and deserves to be ignored.  Unfortunately, the reasonable reply will be erased by the vile comparison with the Holocaust. 

    Every covid vaccine side effect is a milder–much milder–version of something the virus itself causes.  That truth gets lost in the hysteria and conspiracy mongering.  The half-truths and outright misrepresentations about the safety of the vaccine are leading people to forego vaccines across the board and are leading to suffering and death from preventable diseases.  

    This site is supposed to be better than that.  I’d given up replying to this stuff here because it’s become an ideology bordering on religion with some of you, but with promotion to the main feed, I can’t let it lie unanswered.

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  5. Nanocelt TheContrarian Member
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    Our government is still trying to rid itself of us deplorables. Which, unfortunately, still includes Jews, particularly as today’s American Progressives are rather virulently anti-Semitic.

    For the record, my theory of why the 1918 Spanish Flu was forgotten, is because the Progressives in control of the US government at the time (Woodrow Wilson) basically ignored that pandemic and did nothing to coordinate much of a response. Further, it was more likely an American than a Spanish flu (those were the days of stigmatizing “inferior” races, like those from southern Europe, eg. Spain, Italy, etc–as opposed to those northern Europeans, as reflected in the American Eugenics efforts by Progressives, culminating in the quite racist immigration reform bill of 1924–signed by another Progressive, Cal Coolidge), as US troops headed to WWI apparently were the vector for the worldwide spread of that flu, that was a particularly severe H1N1 flu of uncertain origin. So with America at considerable fault for that pandemic, and the US federal government basically ignoring it, there was a vested interest among American Progressives in both political parties to downplay that pandemic. Hence it was pretty much air brushed out of our history. 

    And the author of that recent book on the 1918 Flu (The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, published in 2005), John Barry of Tulane University, seems not to have a clue as to why that pandemic was written out of history. He seems unable to conceive of the possibility that American Progressives may have been at considerable fault for that dire event. 

    Barry became a member of Obama’s pandemic task force, and, as a raving Progressive, of course blamed Trump for all things COVID, eg, the supposed “failure” of the US government to mount an effort to counter the COVID Pandemic. Never mind that the task force of which Barry was a member, never got their agenda implemented by Obama or the federal government in any particular way, so that the taks force itself was completely ineffectual.  Barry blames everyone else, rather than the task force. Such was the incompetence of the Obama administration. Of course the problem was the opposite, that the federal and state governments pretty much did everything wrong, not just ignoring but actively working to suppress the sage recommendations of the top epidemiologists on the planet (Kuldorf, Gupta, and Batacharya).  Progressives got it wrong in both instances, too little in the first, way too much of the wrong things in the second, with lasting consequences as you have outlined.

    Thank you very very much for your post. 

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  6. RushBabe49 Thatcher
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    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):

    Our government is still trying to rid itself of us deplorables. Which, unfortunately, still includes Jews, particularly as today’s American Progressives are rather virulently anti-Semitic.

    For the record, my theory of why the 1918 Spanish Flu was forgotten, is because the Progressives in control of the US government at the time (Woodrow Wilson) basically ignored that pandemic and did nothing to coordinate much of a response. Further, it was more likely an American than a Spanish flu (those were the days of stigmatizing “inferior” races, like those from southern Europe, eg. Spain, Italy, etc–as opposed to those northern Europeans, as reflected in the American Eugenics efforts by Progressives, culminating in the quite racist immigration reform bill of 1924–signed by another Progressive, Cal Coolidge), as US troops headed to WWI apparently were the vector for the worldwide spread of that flu, that was a particularly severe H1N1 flu of uncertain origin. So with America at considerable fault for that pandemic, and the US federal government basically ignoring it, there was a vested interest among American Progressives in both political parties to downplay that pandemic. Hence it was pretty much air brushed out of our history.

    And the author of that recent book on the 1918 Flu (The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, published in 2005), John Barry of Tulane University, seems not to have a clue as to why that pandemic was written out of history. He seems unable to conceive of the possibility that American Progressives may have been at considerable fault for that dire event.

    Barry became a member of Obama’s pandemic task force, and, as a raving Progressive, of course blamed Trump for all things COVID, eg, the supposed “failure” of the US government to mount an effort to counter the COVID Pandemic. Never mind that the task force of which Barry was a member, never got their agenda implemented by Obama or the federal government in any particular way, so that the taks force itself was completely ineffectual. Barry blames everyone else, rather than the task force. Such was the incompetence of the Obama administration. Of course the problem was the opposite, that the federal and state governments pretty much did everything wrong, not just ignoring but actively working to suppress the sage recommendations of the top epidemiologists on the planet (Kuldorf, Gupta, and Batacharya). Progressives got it wrong in both instances, too little in the first, way too much of the wrong things in the second, with lasting consequences as you have outlined.

    Thank you very very much for your post.

    Aw, shucks, you made my day. 

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  7. kylez Member
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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/01/14/no-evidence-of-more-athletes-having-died-suddenly-despite-covid-19-vaccine-claims/?sh=7043cf7b75c2

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  8. BillJackson Inactive
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    Yep, thank you for writing that and sending it to them. I remember feeling nervous going out to donate blood, not because of the virus, but because some cop my stop me. And the constant mask-wearing, park-closing and how empty the stores were because people panic-bought, thanks to the media.

    I won’t forget the lakefront being closed on a beautiful Chicago day, only to see three Chicago cops pedaling along, laughing, having a good time. And how the spineless folks of our media — who were just doing PR for the government — were deemed “essential.”

    I’m new to the Christian faith and I know I’m supposed to forgive, but I hope I’ll be exonerated when I don’t chose to forgive JB Pritzker, our worthless legislature and all the functionaries of the state of Illinois until they show a bit of contrition. (Which means, you know, I’ll never have to forgive them.)

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  9. Charles Mark Member
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    The Covid lockdowns were but a prelude to the even greater expansion of government overreach to “save the planet”. And they showed that a majority of citizens will accept any limitations on their freedoms for a quiet life. 

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  10. Flicker Coolidge
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    BillJackson (View Comment):

    Yep, thank you for writing that and sending it to them. I remember feeling nervous going out to donate blood, not because of the virus, but because some cop my stop me. And the constant mask-wearing, park-closing and how empty the stores were because people panic-bought, thanks to the media.

    I won’t forget the lakefront being closed on a beautiful Chicago day, only to see three Chicago cops pedaling along, laughing, having a good time. And how the spineless folks of our media — who were just doing PR for the government — were deemed “essential.”

    I’m new to the Christian faith and I know I’m supposed to forgive, but I hope I’ll be exonerated when I don’t chose to forgive JB Pritzker, our worthless legislature and all the functionaries of the state of Illinois until they show a bit of contrition. (Which means, you know, I’ll never have to forgive them.)

    Maybe off-topic, but.  Do you think you should forgive them because you’re told to forgive people, or because you think they’re fools and didn’t know what they were doing and should be forgiven?  Jesus asked for forgiveness for all those who cheered his crucifixion, because they didn’t know what they’re doing.

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  11. BillJackson Inactive
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    FlicMaybe off-topic, but. Do you think you should forgive them because you’re told to forgive people, or because you think they’re fools and didn’t know what they were doing and should be forgiven? Jesus asked for forgiveness for all those who cheered his crucifixion, because they didn’t know what they’re doing.

    I’d say forgive them because I’m told to forgive them. That is, I’m sure there are some of them who are fools who didn’t know what they were doing. And some really lazy people. But I also think there are some who didn’t care and, I’m betting, a few more with malicious intent. I guess what I’m saying is I feel I have to forgive all of them regardless of their motives, but part of me doesn’t want to do that until there’s some real contrition on their part. 

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  12. RushBabe49 Thatcher
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    In my Jewish neck of the woods, forgiveness must be a two-way street. The wrongdoer must admit to the victim that he was wrong, and make amends (like reinstating those fired for refusing the jab). Until that is done, the victim should not forgive the wrongdoer. 

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  13. Flicker Coolidge
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    RushBabe49 (View Comment):

    In my Jewish neck of the woods, forgiveness must be a two-way street. The wrongdoer must admit to the victim that he was wrong, and make amends (like reinstating those fired for refusing the jab). Until that is done, the victim should not forgive the wrongdoer.

    I’m conflicted on it, but sometimes I think forgiving someone for deliberate wrong-doing when he’s not repentant is an easy way out.  Sometimes, I think it’s an elevated form or morality.  So the closest I get is to ask God to bless them with repentance and spiritual obedience.

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  14. I Walton Member
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    Good letter.   The whole business shows us where we’re headed.  The question is can we change it?  Let’s not forget the Chinese are in full mode behind it, even though these idiots didn’t even need them.  Similar processes are going on in other countries.   Colombia’s new president is a marxist, has been running for many decades, sort of like Biden, and finally won.  How much fraud we can’t know, but most, as in the US don’t think it wasn’t fraudulent.  Same thing happened in Peru and Brazil.  Each with different campaign thrusts.   They’re shut down because of Covid was even more drastic.   Is this just coincidence?   The Chinese are big in all of them, investing in basic resources, volunteering to do massive construction in ports etc. and spreading disease?

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