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<\/p>\nAlmost all of America\u2019s leaders have gradually pulled back their covid mandates, requirements, and closures \u2013 even in states like California, which had imposed the most stringent and longest-lasting restrictions on the public. At the same time, the media has been gradually acknowledging the ongoing release of studies that totally refute the purported reasons behind those restrictions.<\/p>\n
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This overt reversal is falsely portrayed as \u201clearned<\/em>\u201d or \u201cnew evidence<\/em>.\u201d Little acknowledgement of error is to be found. We have seen no public apology for promulgating false information, or for the vilification and delegitimization of policy experts and medical scientists who spoke out correctly about data, standard knowledge about viral infections and pandemics, and fundamental biology.<\/p>\n The historical record is critical. We have seen a macabre Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and to blame the failure of widespread lockdowns on the lockdowns\u2019 critics, alongside absurd denials of officials\u2019 own incessant demands for them. Dr. Deborah Birx was formally in charge of the medical side of the White House\u2019s coronavirus task force during the pandemic\u2019s first year. In that capacity, she authored all written federal policy recommendations to governors and states and personally advised each state\u2019s public health officials during official visits, often with Vice President Mike Pence, who oversaw the entire task force. Upon the inauguration of President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci became chief medical advisor and ran the Biden pandemic response.<\/p>\n We should acknowledge the abject failure of the Birx-Fauci policies. They were enacted, but they failed to stop the dying, failed to stop the infection from spreading, and inflicted massive damage and destruction particularly on lower-income families and on America\u2019s children.<\/p>\n More than 1 million American deaths have been attributed to that virus. Even after draconian measures, including school closures, stoppage of non-covid medical care, business shutdowns, personal restrictions, and then the continuation of many restrictions and mandates in the presence of a vaccine, there was an undeniable failure to stop cases from rapidly escalating.<\/p>\n Numerous experts called for targeted protection, a safer alternative to widespread lockdowns, in national media beginning in March of 2020. That proposal was rejected. History\u2019s biggest public health policy failure came at the hands of those who recommended the lockdowns and those who implemented them, not those who advised otherwise.<\/p>\n In a democracy, indeed in any ethical and free society, the truth is essential. The American people need to hear the truth \u2013 the facts, free from the political distortions, misrepresentations, and censorship. The first step is to clearly state the harsh truth in the starkest possible terms. Lies were told. Those lies harmed the public. Those lies were directly contrary to the evidence, to decades of knowledge on viral pandemics, and to long-established fundamental biology.<\/p>\n Here are the 10 biggest falsehoods \u2013 known for years to be false, not recently learned or proven to be so \u2013 promoted by America\u2019s public health leaders, elected and unelected officials, and now-discredited academics:<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a far higher fatality rate than the flu by several orders of magnitude. None of us are so na\u00efve as to expect a direct apology from critics as employers, or government, academic public health, and the media. But to ensure that this never takes place again, government leaders, power-driven officials, and influential academics and advisors often harboring conflicts of interest need to be held accountable.<\/p>\n It is very little likely that any government investigation or commission can avoid politicization. Regardless of their intention, all such government-run inquiries will at least be perceived as politically motivated and their conclusions will be rejected outright by many. Those investigations should proceed, though, if only to seek the truth, to teach our children that truth matters, and to remember G.K. Chesterton\u2019s critical lesson that \u201cRight is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n yogaesoteric <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost all of America\u2019s leaders have gradually pulled back their covid mandates, requirements, and closures \u2013 even in states like California, which had imposed the most stringent and longest-lasting restrictions on the public. 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\n<\/em>The tragic failure of reckless, unprecedented lockdowns that were contrary to established pandemic science, and the added massive harms of those policies on children, the elderly, and lower-income families, are indisputable and well-documented in numerous studies. This was the biggest, the most tragic, and the most unethical breakdown of public health leadership in modern history.<\/p>\n
\n2.<\/strong> Everyone is at significant risk to die from this virus.
\n3.<\/strong> No one has any immunological protection, because this virus is completely new.
\n4.<\/strong> Asymptomatic people are major drivers of the spread.
\n5.<\/strong> Locking down \u2013 closing schools and businesses, confining people to their homes, stopping non-covid medical care, and eliminating travel \u2013 will stop or eliminate the virus.
\n6.<\/strong> Masks will protect everyone and stop the spread.
\n7.<\/strong> The virus is known to be naturally occurring, and claiming it originated in a lab is a conspiracy theory.
\n8.<\/strong> Teachers are at especially high risk.
\n9.<\/strong> Covid vaccines stop the spread of the infection.
\n10.<\/strong> Immune protection only comes from a vaccine.<\/p>\n
\nApril 19, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n