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2023-05-09 Government Corruption
Never letting a good crisis go to waste - 'This Was Downright Morbid'
[Daily Reckoning] These are the days of grasping for excuses. In sector after sector, leaders who gave us lockdowns and all that followed are trying to account for their actions, not apologizing of course but admitting that, in the classic formulation, mistakes were made.

That said, they all agree on the core point. The government had to take big steps to deal with the pandemic.

A book just released from the original lockdown gangsters (about which I will write more later), a book celebrated by the Washington Post as the authoritative account, puts it this way:

"American leaders entering the Covid war plunged ahead with a breathtaking political and social experiment. Facing a dangerous pandemic, they adopted the broadest, most ambitious, and intrusive set of government controls on social behavior in the history of the United States. Given the lack of preparation at all levels of government, mistakes were inevitable and to be expected, perhaps even excusable."

Excusable is the new watchword, and Anthony Fauci has picked it up. In a recent interview, he admits that many things went wrong but adds: "I don’t think anybody would argue with the fact that you had to shut down."
He meant well.
FREEZER TRUCKS AS PROPAGANDA TOOLS
Then he adds what he clearly considers the key talking point. We know because he has said this is in several interviews. He says that the obvious disaster of freezer trucks at hospitals signaled and proved the desperate need for lockdowns.

Notice too how CNN had a terrifying graphic ready to run alongside his comments. This still is particularly evocative with the Statue of Liberty in the background, not that anyone would suggest that this was staged (he said with a nudge).

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

— C.S. Lewis
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-09 01:49|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 For a comprehensive 'deep dive' into the topic, I recommend Alex Berenson's 'Pandemia.'

Page 109:

"By early April 2020, Americans said they believed they had a 25 percent chance of dying from the coronavirus if they were infected. That was about one hundred times the actual risk. While they perceived risk fell slightly over time, it remained around 12 percent until the poll ended in 2021. Women, who were less likely to die than men, believed their risk was higher."

"Even more stunning people under forty said they believed their risk of death was about one in five. For most of them, the estimate was off by a factor of at least ten thousand."
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-09 06:08||   2023-05-09 06:08|| Front Page Top

#2 'Crisis' sells print columns and air times.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-09 07:29||   2023-05-09 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ And meds! Don't forget the meds!
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-09 07:32||   2023-05-09 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I will always remember the Cavuto meltdown. It was my favorite part of lockdown other than Bill Bellichik’s dog making a draft pick.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-09 12:34||   2023-05-09 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 "I don’t think anybody would argue with the fact that you had to shut down."

Conveniently forgetting the signers of the Great Barrington declaration.
Posted by KBK 2023-05-09 22:47||   2023-05-09 22:47|| Front Page Top

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