Timothy Birdnow

A writer for the Atlantic asked a question about why the public lost faith in Big Science after the Covid years. He was truly at a loss:

I would have left this reply but am not on X, alas:

My sister-in-law's husband's mother died alone because they wouldn't let anyone in to see her out of fear of Covid, even though they knew she was dying. That was a disgraceful act of pseudo-scientific abuse.

My wife was disabled and she needed help walking and I took her to the hospital eye clinic for a treatment and was holding her up - and a woman who worked there came up to me and began screaming at me about social distancing. I had a huge fight with her. She was only doing what the authorities had encouraged her to do.

Because the gaps in the fabric fibers of most masks were far larger than the virus itself and so the virus could easily move through the mask. It was obvious the masking was intended as a psychological tool, not a medical aid. It was aimed at making people FEEL like we were in a crisis.

Because not just the Democrats but some psychology journals argued that this would reinstate broke trust for government and in "experts" and it would help the Democratic Party since Trump was the "anti-science" President as they claimed. The obvious political nature of the lockdowns and masking and all the rest were apparent.

Because the places that imposed the harshest measures wound up being the places with the worst Covid. Look at New York where the governor forced nursing homes to take in Covid patients and it led to mass infections. Whereas the places that took the boot off the throat - like Florida - did far better.

In fact where I live in St. Louis the city and county both closed most things (keeping liquor stores open though) and when they did open up bars there were strict limitations, facemasking required (you could only pull it down to take a sip) and social distancing which broke up groups. St. Charles County, across the Missouri river, eschewed such draconian regulations. Guess which one had the higher infection rate? They were largely living normally in St. Charles and they were healthier.

Because they promised it would only be two weeks to "flatten the curve". They lied.

Because they were proven to have been fudging the data of infections. I knew a number of people who had been informed they had Covid when in fact they had not even been tested. And there was no flu season those years, not because there was no flu going around but because it was being misdiagnosed as Covid to pump up the numbers.

Because it became increasingly obvious there was a cabal inside the CDC and elsewhere (notably Fauci) who were making lots of money off the drug manufacturers and so pushed the vaccine, a vaccine which did not prevent you from getting Covid, nor spreading Covid.

Because they denied there were serious side effects, like heart issues and other things that led to death. We know a lot of young athletes died of strange heart conditions after being vaccinated, for instance.

Because they used it to impose mail-in voting, thus roiling traditional voting patterns and winning the election for Joe Biden by the largest number of votes in American history, while the man never left his home. Mail in voting was condemned by the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission which examined election integrity after the election of 2000 as ripe for vote fraud.

At best, all the lockcdowns and masking and social distancing was delay herd immunity as people were exposed to the disease at a slower rate and just caught it later.

It wasn't just a stupid policy, it was a monstrous, dishonest, corrupt, and entirely unnecessary set of policies pushed by a technocratic elite who often exempted themselves from their own policies (Remember Gavin Newsom being caught partying sans mask or social distancing?) When they told us Black Lives Matter was exempt from Covid regulations because, well, they couldn't catch it if they were protesting or whatever was proof the whole thig was an enormous lie.

There is absolutely no reason to believe the people involved in this scam have gone away. Most are still there and waiting for another chance to push these policies again.

BTW most of the Covid response was based on a school science project of a thirteen year old boy whose father was a scientist. It was directed to the Bush Administration which rejected these proposals as wholly unworkable. Then it was adopted by the Obama Administration. I would point out the movie Contagion came out in 2011 and the response in that movie was almost identical to the one from our government. One suspects they used the movie to ease the public's mind when they implemented it. Oh, and there was a drill done in October of 2019 about a potential outbreak of a new covid virus just before it hit. Coincidence? Maybe, but maybe not too. That was called Event 201. https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise

We were lied to from beginning to end by the authorities; why would we trust them now?

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