The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong.

Walking It Back… Walking It Back… Walking It Back

DF sent in this article from The Atlantic, titled “Why Are We Still Arguing About Masks?”

It fits neatly with what I’ve been calling the “walking-back” strategy – a tactic now being used by all those that took part in promoting the misinformation about COVID that was so damaging to our culture, our economy, and our democracy.

As more and more facts are brought to light, they don’t want to be blamed for any of it. They want us to forgive and forget. But we shouldn’t, because what they did was unforgiveable.

They used the conceit of SCIENCE to abrogate our basic rights. To pass laws that inhibited freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech. To put free-thinking doctors in jail, silence true investigative reporters, and to shut down our entire economy, putting thousands of small businesses out of business and causing what I believe will amount to about a trillion dollars of economic damage. Not to mention the untold number of deaths caused by “politically correct” health procedures: the use of respirators, the limitations on ameliorative drugs, and the widespread insistence on the vaccines.

Click here to read a Meryl Nass essay about a particularly offensive walking-back tactic used by Richard Baron, head of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

And for a welcome change of pace, click here. This is a doctor that has been publishing comments on COVID-19 since the beginning. For a long time, he promoted the use of masks. Now, quite admirably, he is admitting he was wrong.