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Today’s Must Read: “Well, That Unraveled Fast” by
Thinking back to February 28, 2020,
and the New England Journal of Medicine. It published an article called “Covid-19
— Navigating the Uncharted” signed by Anthony S. Fauci (THE Fauci),
Clifford Lane, and Robert R. Redfield.
It reported an existing COVID-19
case fatality rate of 2% but further pointed out that infections show “a wide
spectrum of disease severity.” “If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic
or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of
reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%” or
perhaps as high as the flu seasons of 1957 and 1968, but is nowhere near “a
disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10%
and 36%, respectively.” To be sure, they said, mitigating the disease could
require “isolating ill persons (including voluntary isolation at
home), school closures, and telecommuting where possible.”
Now, what precisely happened
between February 28 and two weeks later? This will be studied for many years to
find out precisely how governors and mayors, through a series of unscientific,
panicked, unjustified, and morally egregious actions, crushed under foot the
world’s strongest economy while the media cheered. We’ll be discussing the whys
and whats for a generation.
The point is that it is all
unraveling as fast as it came.
. . .
In this case, it made the U.S
Constitution and human rights generally null and void for a full thirty days.
And we had no choice but to comply. It was a grotesque experiment in
totalitarianism. Families ripped apart, people’s businesses and jobs destroyed,
essential surgeries delayed, despair spread throughout society.
Now we know. Never again.
Mr. Tucker’s full article is here.
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