Jeffrey A.
Tucker at American Institute for Economic Research has some predictions about
the COVID-19 denouement:
There is a sense in the air that
the pandemic is winding down, and the toxic culture of division, fear, and
hatred along with it. Cases are down dramatically.
Deaths too. Hospitalizations are no longer irregular. Restrictions are being
repealed. You can follow all the action daily at the CDC’s new and unusually
competent landing
page on the virus (it only took them a year to build this).
Despite all the talk of a new normal
and infinite mandates, there is hope that it could all unwind quickly, pushed
by force of public impatience and frustration with restrictions, and a
political scramble to avoid responsibility by running away from all that they
did for the last year.
The list of signs and symbols could
be made very long.
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The politicians who overreached are suddenly
being held accountable, with both Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom on the hotseat.
Calls for governors and mayors to resign consume state and local news. There is
clearly major political tumult building.
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The Great
Barrington Declaration scientists can hardly keep up with the requests
for respectful interviews,
now that it is becoming clear that they were right all along.
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The experience in open states like Florida, Georgia, South Dakota,
and so on, makes it impossible to ignore the grim truth that the lockdowns
achieved nothing for public health but did harm health, businesses, liberties,
law, and civilized life.
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The push to open economies, by the same people
who locked down the economies, such as Boris Johnson in the UK, is an implicit
repudiation of the nonsensical ZeroCovid
movement. Everyone seems now to agree with what AIER has been saying for a
year: humanity must deal intelligently with pathogens and stop pretending that
political forces can control them.
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AIER visiting senior fellow Naomi Wolf had a hit just last
evening on the Tucker Carlson show, and they spoke as allies in the
reopening efforts after years of ideological sparring.
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There is growing weariness of Anthony Fauci’s
daily word salads that have massively mixed up the public health messaging for
a full year, to the point that Meghan McCain has called for his
firing.
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A year ago, Slate was making
sense until the virus became political and they joined the lockdown
mob. Now the publication is back to making sense again, with this excellent
piece.
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British medical journal The Lancet is publishing excellent short pieces on the
cost of lockdowns, including this
riveting letter from Martin Kulldorff.
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A prestigious European journal of public health
has published a blistering
attack on the very idea that a power government should ever be trusted
with virus mitigation.
The people who have committed their
careers and lives to this pandemic and the policies surrounding it might soon
need to find a new raison d’etre.
Then the clean up begins – how did this happen, who did it, how to make sure it
never happens again – and does not end perhaps for decades.
The full
article is here.
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