Tag: pandemic amnesty

Emily Oster’s Plea Bargain

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Shuck-and-jive from America’s broken thinking class, the people who pretend to know better than everybody else.

Editorial: Reject "Pandemic Amnesty" - The Maine Wire

By now, everybody and his uncle has seen Emily Oster’s plea for “pandemic amnesty” in The Atlantic magazine, a house organ of the people in America who know better than you do about… really… everything. Emily’s wazoo is so stuffed with gold-plated credentials (BA, PhD, Harvard; economics prof at Brown U) it’s a wonder that she could sit down long enough to peck out her lame argument that “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.”

Emily wasn’t “in the dark.” She had access to the same information as the Americans who recognized that everything the public health authorities, the medical establishment, and many elected officials shoveled out about Covid and its putative remedies and preventatives was untrue, with a patina of bad faith and malice — especially when it was used to persecute their political adversaries.

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“Pandemic Amnesty”? It’s just more narrative reinforcement

Guest Post by Kit Knightly

A few days ago, on Halloween, the Atlantic ran this opinion piece by economist Emily Oster, headlined:

LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY

This along, along with the sub-head…

We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.

…have been doing the rounds on the internet.

The general perception has been that it is some kind of admission of defeat, perhaps a recognition that the “pandemic” was not real, and that those pushing the narrative had been in the wrong; a genuine plea for understanding or forgiveness.

But while the headline may appear to be suggesting that – and, indeed, was perhaps chosen carefully to create that impression – it’s actually nothing of the kind.

It’s not an apology, a backwards step or segue to our old pre-Covid reality.

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About that amnesty … lest ye forget

Submitted by aka.attrition

Source: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-10/why-shouldnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers

Please note well that the name of the article in the hyperlink is: “… why-shoudnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers”

Here’s the bottom line conclusion of a long, virtue-signalling article titled “Column: Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary”

“But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled.

Nor is it wrong to deny them our sympathy and solicitude, or to make sure it’s known when their deaths are marked that they had stood fast against measures that might have protected themselves and others from the fate they succumbed to.

There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable moments are heard.”

 

Now, about that pandemic amnesty …

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