The Atlantic calls for COVID amnesty

[GURPS]

The professor was not an uninterested bystander. Oster and her team had collected invaluable data on Covid cases in school settings for nearly a year starting in August 2020. The data also mapped differing interventions by state, county, and district – allowing a real-time lab of comparisons. Our team charted her data and found that students in masked schools had a 21 percent higher case rate than students in schools with no masks. Oster published a study coming to similar conclusions.

Then, she dropped out of the discussion and refused to push her study for peer review and publication.

Numerous influential academics like Emily, under pressure from peers and establishment leaders, caved, stayed silent, and mothballed their data altogether. It’s difficult to separate intimidation from self-censorship – but a blanket amnesty seems premature.

Of course, no apology will be forthcoming from Dr. Anthony Fauci. During numerous media interviews in the last several months, he has refused to acknowledge any mistakes. Apparently, he fears that the slightest mea culpa would be taken “out of context.” Fauci’s only tool was fear and he’s not going to give up his tactic.

Public Health Elites Who Pushed Anti-Science Policies Deserve Accountability, Not 'Amnesty'

Fear-mongering virus prophets that prided themselves on public health damaged public trust more than anything else.

thefederalist.com

 

[GURPS]

Amnesty for J6, not covid

Democrats consider the protesters to be worse than the Confederate Army

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I am not gloating. How can one gloat over the lives ruined and the people hurt by Oster and her elitist crowd’s pandemic panic? I opposed shutting down the economy. I spoke out against arresting lone surfers in California and New Hampshire. I supported HCQ. I knew masks wouldn’t stop covid. I got the shots because of my wife’s comorbidities but I told readers you do you. Pretty much, I got it right.

Most conservatives did. We were right. The government was wrong. And that is why we cannot grant amnesty because amnesty is “a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.”

Thus, by definition there can be no amnesty. They were not draft dodgers avoiding the Vietnam war. They were promoters of draconian, unconstitutional and ineffective measures to fight covid.

The government grants amnesty; it does not receive it. Make no mistake, Oster worked for the government. Her paycheck may have said Brown or some Goldman Sachs foundation which sponsors her chair at the college. But she did the Overlord’s work by promoting policies that were at best of no use in the battle against covid. At worst, they were unconstitutional acts dictated by a deep state hellbent on destroying and ending Donald John Trump’s presidency.

 

[CPUSA]

So you're not going to hold hands with Dr. Brewster and sing Kum Ba Yah?

Maybe hold her hand while administering her last rights, on the way to the gallows...

And if a rendition of Kumbaya is her last request....sure. Why not?

 

[CPUSA]

For your consideration ...


Yeah. Like when the Lord said, "If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

Clearly, He wasn't dealing with some really demented satanic and evil maniacal psychopaths hell bent on destroying what he created. Maybe we should take a page from his playbook and develop something along the lines of the flood Noah dealt with and rid ourselves of these satanic f...ks? I'm pretty sure the Lord will forgive us for not forgiving them, seeing as they are destroying his creations. Besides, apparently we are already forgiven through Christ dying on the cross for our sins anyways. So we are covered.

Jesus was all about forgiveness. His father?...Not so much.
Show me where he forgave the *******s in the Book of Noah?
Show me where he forgave the degenerates & pedophiles of Sodom & Gomorrha?
The Egyptians? Hell, he killed all of their first born, just like Pharaoh did to his chosen ones!!

That book is filled with all sorts of the delightful ways Our Lord executes his wrath upon us...the last thing The Lord believes in is forgiveness...

 

[CPUSA]

Jesus was all about forgiveness. His father?...Not so much.
Show me where he forgave the *******s in the Book of Noah?
Show me where he forgave the degenerates & pedophiles of Sodom & Gomorrha?
The Egyptians? Hell, he killed all of their first born, just like Pharaoh did to his chosen ones!!

That book is filled with all sorts of the delightful ways Our Lord executes his wrath upon us...the last thing The Lord believes in is forgiveness...

Oops...I see where you covered the flood thing.
But you get the overall point...Jesus forgives...God kills

 

[GURPS]

 

[my-thyme]

Good for her! I have a fear of heights, unfortunately. I thought I could get over it by making myself get up there..didn't work. Crawled to the middle and froze there.

Hello, twin, I knew you were somewhere....

 

[GURPS]

Dissecting the Deceptive Plea for COVID-19 Amnesty​

 

[GURPS]

Voters Reject ‘Amnesty’ For Big Mistakes Made During COVID: I&I/TIPP Poll​

We asked: “Some say we should have ‘amnesty’ for those who made big mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic. To what extent do you agree or disagree?”

Some 35% of all respondents said they either “agree strongly” (12%) or “agree somewhat” (23%), according to the poll.

But the “disagrees” were slightly larger, at 39%, with most saying they “disagree strongly” (21%), compared to those who said they “disagree somewhat” (18%). A significantly large 26% of all respondents said they were “not sure.”

 

[Kyle]

‘PANDEMIC AMNESTY’ for bureaucrats? Daughter of cancer patient says ‘if you want forgiveness, you can ask God'


An Atlantic piece argued bureaucrats deserve forgiveness for bad COVID-19 policies. A cancer patient's daughter says people aren't ready.

Her mother, Michelle Clark, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in February 2020, just before COVID-19 took hold. She had an operation scheduled for March, but in the wake of the pandemic, her hospital limited elective surgeries to secure capacity for coronavirus patients. Her procedure was delayed until October.

Michelle's cancer progressed to stage 4 during those months. It spread to her lungs, and her doctors deemed it incurable, Clark told Fox News.

Michelle, now 52, continues to fight, despite doctors' prognosis, Clark said. She also acknowledged that many other Americans suffered worse than her family at the hands of COVID-19 policies.

‘PANDEMIC AMNESTY’ for bureaucrats? Daughter of cancer patient says ‘if you want forgiveness, you can ask God'

Corinne Clark says the The Atlantic's for “pandemic amnesty” isn't deserved, considering her cancer-ridden mother was denied treatment due to COVID-19 policies.

www.foxnews.com

 

[TPD]

This is why no one gets ’rona amnesty. Good read like all Hillsdale articles.


After the summer of 2020, people started to get the hang of having “free money” dropped into their bank accounts. So by November, the savings rate had dropped back down to 13.3 percent. When the Biden administration unleashed another round of stimulus in 2021, the savings rate at first nearly doubled. But fast forward to the present and people are saving only 3.5 percent—half the historical norm dating back to 1960—and credit card debt is soaring, even though interest rates are 17 percent and higher.

In other words, all the curves inverted once inflation came along to eat out the value of the stimulus. In reality, all that “free money” turned out to be very expensive. The dollar of January 2020 is now worth only $0.87, which is to say that the stimulus spending covered by the Federal Reserve printing money stole $0.13 of every American dollar in the course of only 2.5 years.

This was one of the biggest head fakes in the history of modern economics. The pandemic planners created paper prosperity to cover up the grim reality they had brought about. But paper prosperity is false prosperity. It could not and did not last. Between January 2021 and September 2022, prices increased 13.5 percent across the board, costing the average American family $728 in September alone.

Even if inflation were to stop today, the inflation already in the bag will cost the average American family $8,739 over the next twelve months.

The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response

Economics is about people making choices and institutions enabling them to thrive. Public health is about the same thing. Driving a wedge between the two, as happened in 2020, ranks among the most catastrophic public policy decisions of our lifetimes. Health and economics both require the...

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