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    Public Health: Won’t Get Fooled Again

    Public Health technocrats lied about the various "must-dos" to combat COVID. People believed it hook, line and sinker.

    Public Health: Won’t Get Fooled Again

    More than a century ago, Mark Twain identified two fundamental problems that would prove relevant to the Covid pandemic. “How easy it is to make people believe a lie,” he wrote, “and how hard it is to undo that work again!” No convincing evidence existed at the start of the pandemic that lockdowns, school closures, and mask mandates would protect people against the virus, but it was remarkably easy to make the public believe that these policies were “the science.” Today, thanks to two years of actual scientific evidence, it’s clearer than ever that these were terrible mistakes; yet most people still believe that the measures were worthwhile—and many are eager to maintain some mandates even longer.

    Undoing this deception is essential to avoid further hardship and future fiascos, but it will be exceptionally hard to do. The problem is that so many people want to keep believing the falsehood—and it’s not just the politicians, bureaucrats, researchers, and journalists who don’t want to admit that they promoted disastrous policies. Ordinary citizens have an incentive, too. Adults meekly surrendered their most basic liberties, cheered on leaders who devastated the economy, and imposed two years of cruel and unnecessary deprivations on their children. They don’t want to admit that these sacrifices were in vain.

    Before Covid, the United States drew up plans for a pandemic and maintained the world’s most lavishly funded scientific and medical institutions to deal with one. When the coronavirus arrived, the leaders of those institutions should have identified who was at serious risk and who wasn’t and adopted proven strategies to protect the vulnerable while doing the least harm to everyone else. They should have monitored the effects of their policies and adjusted them based on what they learned. By honestly communicating the risks and considering the overall public good, they could have tamped down needless fear and united the country behind their efforts.

    Instead, they proceeded to ignore their own plans as well as the basic principles of science and public health. Leaders of the CDC terrified the public with worst-case scenarios based on computer models—and then used those blatantly unrealistic projections to claim unprecedented powers and experiment with untested strategies. Their pre-Covid planning scenarios had rejected business and school closures even for a pandemic as deadly as the Spanish flu of 1918, but when the Covid-19 pandemic came, they imposed lockdowns without even pretending to weigh the hypothetical benefits against the tangible economic, medical, and social costs—not to mention the intangible costs in emotional hardship and lost liberty. Randomized clinical trials conducted before the pandemic had repeatedly shown that masks did little or no good at preventing viral spread, but the CDC proclaimed them effective against Covid and promoted mask mandates nationwide. As the pandemic wore on, federal health officials looked for excuses to justify the lockdowns and mandates, hyping flawed studies and cherry-picked data, while failing to sponsor rigorous research testing their strategies.
    They stubbornly ignored the hundreds of studies around the world showing that, except in a few isolated places, lockdowns did not reduce Covid mortality and that mask mandates were generally ineffective and senselessly cruel in classrooms. The most glaring evidence came from places with the least restrictive policies, like Florida, along with the Nordic countries Sweden, Finland, and Norway, which avoided lockdowns and mask mandates—yet did as well as, or better than, the average in preventing both Covid deaths and overall mortality during the course of the pandemic.




    he public needs to learn what went wrong during the pandemic, but they’re not going to hear it from the Biden administration. It rewarded Fauci for his failures by giving him a new title, Chief Medical Advisor to the President, and would surely resist any serious investigation of its Covid strategies. Republicans could start the process if they win control of Congress in November and establish a Covid commission, but they’d be taking on the federal bureaucracy as well as the public-health establishment. Scott Atlas, the health-policy analyst from the Hoover Institution who joined the Trump administration’s Covid task force and fought unsuccessfully against Fauci’s pandemic policies, says that his experience in Washington has convinced him that any government-run commission would be a mistake.
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    no mask, no jab
    screw 'em. They've been lying to us all along....about everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    no mask, no jab
    screw 'em. They've been lying to us all along....about everything.

    And, now they're saying, if you come down with covid like symptoms, just treat yourself like you would if you had the flu.

    They've known all along, that's all that was needed.

    Rest, fluids and, over the counter medications.
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    They managed to convince people they were sicker than they were, that they needed hospitalization and, ventilators........those practices KILLED a lot of people, people who needed OXYGEN, not ventilators.

    It was a conspiracy, spearheaded by Gates, Fauci, Obama and, God only knows who else.
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    Masks weren't needed, social distancing wasn't necessary, lockdowns weren't necessary and, these "vaccines," aren't needed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abby08 View Post
    Masks weren't needed, social distancing wasn't necessary, lockdowns weren't necessary and, these "vaccines," aren't needed.
    ....IF they are really some sort of vaccine and not a placebo
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    We are going to look back on this with a lot of revisions.

    Public Panic and Rational Science do not blend well together............................
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    I don't think vaccines were necessarily bad. The mass global vax program was. That is likely a major factor in all of the mutations. Targeted vax programs for at risk groups wouldn't have caused that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I don't think vaccines were necessarily bad. The mass global vax program was. That is likely a major factor in all of the mutations. Targeted vax programs for at risk groups wouldn't have caused that.
    Yes, and then going to the other extreme with Mandates instead of building herd immunity in those who could most easily handle COVID.
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    You know who wrote the song "Won't Get Fooled Again"? The WHO. Checkmate.
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