Don’t Let Them Rewrite the Pandemic

 

The Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the elderly and the sick in this country. It inspired or terrified us into huge social, governmental, and economic experiments. “Lockdown” stopped being just prison jargon. We have long since entered an appropriate period of reflection and investigation. Fights about masks, social-distancing, quarantines, and closures of churches, parks, and other amenities disfigured the normal rhythm of human life, marring funerals and delaying weddings. We are now uncovering years of learning loss and missed developmental milestones in children who were deprived of needed socialization, structured play, and face-to-face learning for speech development.

These particular maladies and the way America was an outlier in them are at the feet of our institutions and their leaders. Which is why they are lying so much about their records.

...The shocking thing is that Dr. Fauci, head of NIAID and one of the nation’s most celebrated physicians, acted in much the same way — tirelessly torturing the available evidence to protect the day-to-day, hour-by-hour reputation of public-health agencies, rather than the long-term reputation of publicly funded science, and scientific expertise itself. His unwillingness to accept responsibility for public confusion on masks is lamentable and discredits his reputation as a leader...more