... "It was known before March 2020 that lockdowns would cause lifelong and avoidable collateral damage,
yet the world’s ruling classes who claim to have earned their place atop a “meritocracy” strenuously demanded such damage be inflicted especially on children and other vulnerable people.
This ruling class used all their massive financial, communications, and government powers to ensure these tragic outcomes, even though anyone who was an actual expert ...
... Now that people are beginning to more deeply feel the foreseeable evil consequences of ruling class responses to a novel virus, that ruling class is pulling what propaganda experts call a “limited hangout.”
That’s admitting to bits of the truth in order to re-establish yourself as a credible authority while attempting to keep the whole truth hidden.
So we have outlets such as The Atlantic and The New York Times, which have throughout the Covid era worked as government butt-coverers,
now publishing articles admitting that lockdowns and continued rolling blackouts of school instruction is irrevocably damaging Americans,
especially children and even more especially the poorest.
The kids, as I pointed out in April 2020 and numerous times thereafter, will never as a generation recover.
Suicide rate by age (Pre-Covid):
Age 5 to 11: 0.17 per 100,000
Age 12 to 17: 5.18 per 100,000
That's a 3,000 percent jump as kids age.
Now consider that suicides among
5-11 year olds tripled during lockdowns.
— F. Bill McMorris
(@FBillMcMorris)
January 6, 2022
Now that the damage is done, major corporate media organizations have decided to pivot to acknowledge just enough of the truth to cover their complicity.
The Atlantic, for example, last week published
an article titled “America’s Covid Rules
Are A Dumpster Fire” ...
CNN’s Brian Stelter recently did a segment
acknowledging the foreseeable
“mental health crisis” from lockdowns that is
causing suicides,
ruining marriages,
putting formerly perfectly normal kids into rocking fetal positions,
and erasing the credibility of formerly mostly ignored “public health experts” at institutions like the Centers for Disease Control and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Stelter made multiple statements that have gotten numerous conservatives punished by and erased from social media, such as
“Covid zero is…an impossibility” and
“the CDC has turned into a punchline.”
Where was Stelter a year and a half ago, when data reflecting the exact same outcomes were also plentiful?
Heck, Stelter was still legitimizing Covid panic one month ago, when CNN and other news organizations reinstituted lockdown measures amid omicron panic they helped inflame.
Six months ago, Stelter was indicating Fox News had “blood on its hands” for reporting less hysterically than all the other major media organizations about Covid.
Clearly, Democrats are becoming ensnared by their own trap, and they’re trying to get out with this public reversal of their messaging.
The limited hangout is afoot.
Brave NYT truth-teller David Leonhardt also recently published an article and an accompanying tweet storm on the topic.
“The number of E.R. visits for suspected suicide attempts by 12- to 17-year-old girls rose by 51 percent from early 2019 to early 2021, according to the CDC,” he tweeted.
“Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the virus’s spread.
Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances.
Other interventions, like forcing students to sit apart from their friends at lunch, may also have little benefit,” he noted in the article.
... So why did The New York Times run hit pieces on Trump medical advisor Scott Atlas for being one of the few scientists courageous enough to point this long-ago known data out more than a year ago, when the damage could have been mitigated?
Why did Stanford University colleagues and formerly respected medical journals, boosted by corporate media attack campaigns, try to discredit Atlas and colleagues such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for saying things The New York Times, Atlantic, and CNN are admitting now?
Why did the CDC punish world-renowned vaccine scientist Dr. Martin Kulldorff for publicly disagreeing with them on vaccine safety?
Why does Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook shadow ban nearly every Federalist article on anything touching Covid-19,
and why did they spend two years on massive information suppression campaigns against scientists, politicians, podcasters, and just ordinary citizens
who had some questions, contrary data, and objections to elites’ demanded Covid response?
Because it was politically expedient
to sacrifice science,
Americans’ civil rights,
human lives,
and the world’s future then,
and it is not politically expedient
to face the consequences
for that choice now.
And they think nobody can or will
hold them accountable for
their deadly and despicable lies.
... CNN and The New York Times not only did nothing to help prevent this kind of irreversible damage, they willingly, even gleefully, participated in this completely unwarranted mass abuse of Americans.
The left lied, children committed suicide.
The corporate left’s morally abominable Covid propaganda operation demands justice.
The people who could and should have known, and in fact likely did know, that lockdowns would harm millions of innocents while not protecting the vulnerable can never be trusted again.
Did any of these people tell the truth back
when it could have saved the generation
that comprises the world’s future?
Nope. They not only watched it happen,
they cheered it on and viciously ostracized
all who told the truth.
All these people have erased all their moral authority and their claims to expertise.
The same goes for all the education “experts” and “leaders” who didn’t spend the last two years screaming at the top of their lungs that school shutdowns are a stupid, scientifically unwarranted, and evil idea.
Yes, that’s basically all of them.
"Large parts of American society" were actually trying to prioritize their own children but were smeared as selfish murderers by the elitist ruling class who slammed schools shut to grow their own power.
https://t.co/MKpSrrNae0
— Kylee Zempel
(@kyleezempel)
January 4, 2022
Experts who knowingly allow mass child abuse because they don’t want to harm their careers are not experts, they are cowards.
They deserve not one ounce of public trust or even to retain their jobs.
They certainly should have no public funds nor authority over any portion of the upbringing of American children.
It hasn't been defensible since fall of 2020, when every school in America should have opened and stayed open.
This happened because people in power didn't really care about the kids, and they still don't.
Parents: do whatever you have to do
to pull your kids from public school.
https://t.co/GWQOIb1qAR
— John Daniel Davidson
(@johnddavidson)
January 4, 2022
These “experts” and “leaders” have shown themselves to be grossly incompetent at discharging their crucial public trust and duties.
They should be relieved of those duties as soon as possible.
If state lawmakers will not do it, citizens must.
If they do not, they are also complicit cowards and also deserve to be sanctioned and socially shamed for their willingness to sacrifice the most vulnerable for their personal comfort.
For a long time now, American parents have registered deep dissatisfaction with the public schools they feel forced to stick their kids in.
Even before lockdowns, unscientific and education-damaging forced masking in schools, ridiculous repeated quarantines of healthy kids, and rolling “brownouts” of in-person schooling,
polling shows most American parents wish they didn’t feel like the public schools in their ZIP code were their only option.
After all this incompetence-imposed life chaos, the current surge of parent outrage at local school board meetings is only the tip of the spear.
As more evidence emerges of the unnecessary harms we knew beforehand would result from lockdowns, public anger will only grow. It won’t be limited to schools, either.
If more exciting school board meetings,
primaries for craven politicians,
and parents yanking funding from schools that don’t serve them are what it takes to run every one of these moral cretins out of every position of power they’ve abused throughout their careers, then go, Americans, go.
Do it for the kids.
Our future will remember who stood up for the truth, lives, and liberties, and who made billions of precious humans needlessly suffer."
Author Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. Her bestselling ebook is "Classic Books for Young Children"
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Those Who Pushed Lockdowns Can't Hide From The Consequences Now
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