Jeffery A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute reviews Dr
Scott Atlas’s book chronicling his time as an advisor in the Trump White House,
and his analyses of the COVID hoaxes (h/t Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge):
A President Betrayed
by Bureaucrats:
Scott Atlas’s Masterpiece on the Covid Disaster
I’m a voracious reader of Covid
books but nothing could have prepared me for Scott Atlas’s A
Plague Upon Our House, a full and mind-blowing account of the famed
scientist’s personal experience with the Covid era and a luridly detailed
account of his time at the White House. The book is hot fire, from page one to
the last, and will permanently affect your view of not only this pandemic and
the policy response but also the workings of public health in general.
Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal
for the ages. It is enormously valuable because it fully blows up what seems to
be an emerging fake story involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who
did nothing vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory
mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word
of that is true. Atlas’s book, I hope, makes it impossible to tell such tall
tales without embarrassment.
Anyone who tells you this fictional
story (including
Deborah Birx) deserves to have this highly credible treatise tossed in
his direction. The book is about the war between real science (and genuine
public health), with Atlas as the voice for reason both before and during his
time in the White House, vs. the enactment of brutal policies that never stood
any chance of controlling the virus while causing tremendous damage to the
people, to human liberty, to children in particular, but also to billions of
people around the world.
For the reader, the author is our
proxy, a reasonable and blunt man trapped in a world of lies, duplicity,
backstabbing, opportunism, and fake science. He did his best but could not
prevail against a powerful machine that cares nothing for facts, much less
outcomes.
. . .
Throughout the book, Atlas points
to the enormous cost of the machinery of lockdowns, the preferred method of
Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx: missed cancer screenings, missed surgeries,
nearly two years of educational losses, bankrupted small business, depression
and drug overdoses, overall citizen demoralization, violations of religious
freedom, all while public health massively neglected the actual at-risk
population in long-term care facilities. Essentially, they were willing to
dismantle everything we called civilization in the name of bludgeoning one
pathogen without regard to the consequences.
The review does include some criticism, but it nevertheless
concludes with this:
We all owe Atlas an enormous debt
of gratitude, for it was he who persuaded the Florida governor to choose the
path of focused protection as advocated by the Great Barrington Declaration,
which Atlas cites as the “single document that will go down as one of the most
important publications in the pandemic, as it lent undeniable credibility to
focused protection and provided courage to thousands of additional medical
scientists and public health leaders to come forward.”
Atlas experienced the slings,
arrows, and worse. The media and the bureaucrats tried to shut him up, shut him
down, and body bag him professionally and personally. Cancelled, meaning
removed from the roster of functional, dignified human beings. Even colleagues
at Stanford University joined in the lynch mob, much to their disgrace. And yet
this book is that of a man who has prevailed against them.
In that sense, this book is easily
the most crucial first-person account we have so far. It is gripping,
revealing, devastating for the lockdowners and their vaccine-mandating
successors, and a true classic that will stand the test of time. It’s simply
not possible to write the history of this disaster without a close examination
of this erudite first-hand account.
The full review is here.
Highly recommended.
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