Seeking Justice for COVID-19 Malice and Incompetence
Dispassionate professionals who were following the continuously-emerging data and clinical evidence surrounding the COVID-19 virus explained – warned – that business shutdowns and stay-at-home mandates wouldn’t ameliorate its medical effects, but would slow America’s ability to deal with the virus, while inflicting terrible hardships on millions.
However, governments and print/broadcast/social media suppressed and censored that truth.
Meanwhile, “experts” and officials focused on COVID-19’s arithmetic numerators – the numbers of identified infections and virus-related deaths. The essential denominator – the total number of infections – remains unknown, because tests were unreliable, and seventy to ninety percent of infections were asymptomatic. Many others experienced only mild, common cold-like symptoms.
Additionally, COVID-19’s mortality rate was similar to or only slightly higher than the seasonal flu outbreaks that never cause shutdowns. European COVID-19 studies reported near zero threat to children and little risk of death to healthy adults.
Most COVID-related deaths were elderly residents of care facilities or people with one or more serious comorbidities.
In fact, COVID-19’s lethality and its impact on public health were also similar to or slightly higher than earlier pandemics through which America remained open, including Asian (1957-58) and Hong Kong (1968-70) flus.
School closures were an injustice to American children. And partisan politics, especially the gubernatorial shutdowns imposed during Donald Trump’s first administration in an election year, proved fatal for businesses, families and, ultimately, lives.
Furthermore, the “safe” COVID-19 mRNA vaccines prolonged the pandemic, caused myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart’s outside lining. The vaccines’ spike proteins pose other health risks. The virus may have been less threatening than the vaccines, nevertheless, many people, including military, who refused the jab lost their jobs.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led President(ish) Joe Biden’s pandemic response, said, “If it looks like you’re overreacting, you’re probably doing the right thing.” Masks never worked, nonetheless, Fauci recommended double masking before appearing maskless at a baseball game.
COVID response coordinator Deborah Birx reprimanded the public for failing to practice social distancing, told Americans not to gather for Thanksgiving, then entertained her extended family on the holiday.
Furthermore, Fauci lied to Congress about the National Institutes of Health funding gain-of-function research at Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. He later admitted there was no science behind draconian COVID guidelines.
Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, a major funding source for Democrats, accused President Trump of “defying science” by urging schools to reopen. The American Academy of Pediatrics reversed its position on reopening schools under pressure from teachers unions.
California Governor Gavin “A Little Dab’ll Do Ya” Newsom was photographed at a mask-free private dinner in an upscale Napa Valley restaurant while other restaurants were forced to remain closed. Newsom kept his own children in full-time, in-person private schools while mandating that California public schools remain closed.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo forced nursing homes to admit COVID-positive patients, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths. Cuomo pontificated, “The faster we reopen [schools and businesses], the lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost, because the more lives lost. That…is the decision we are really making.”
“Economy v. lives” is a false dichotomy. Cuomo heartlessly, dishonestly – or stupidly – implied that the economic and social devastations of lockdowns were not “human costs.” If precipitous declines in productivity, spending and academic progress, lost businesses, massive unemployment, tens of millions unable to pay bills or feed families, missed diagnoses and treatments of other serious illnesses, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence and suicides are not human costs, then what, precisely, are they?
COVID-19 policy cratered public trust in public health “experts,” elected officials and media whose claims about public safety proved invalid. The COVID-19 forecasting models embraced by policymakers and media now serve as indictments of public health “expertise.”
Nonetheless, today, Fauci and Birx are wealthy retirees; Newsom remains California’s governor; Cuomo is running for mayor of New York City; Weingarten remains president of the AFT; and Big Pharma still peddles drugs on TV. They, and none of the public health “experts” whose flawed models perpetrated the hoax, public officials guilty of flawed, dictatorial policymaking, or media figures who aroused panic have ever acknowledged their errors or paid a legal, professional or political price.
Where’s the justice for the millions victimized by their malice, indifference and incompetence?
