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@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 1/n There has been wonderful scientific analysis done and ample real world experience studied, much of it impressively discussed on this forum, making clear that the science of proper response to COVID is not lockdowns, quarantines, isolation, repression and fear mongering.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 2/n The problem is not the science. The problem is what lies in people’s hearts. Some may not like the example, but the problem with Himmler, Stalin and others like them wasn’t that they didn’t understand the science behind their chosen methods of repression, torture and killing.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 3/n No amount of scientific explanation of the devastating effects of their methods would have changed their minds. They had an agenda pushed forward using those as tools, not a scientific dilemma they were struggling to resolve.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 4/n The problem was a defect in their hearts infecting their minds, not in scientific misunderstanding.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 5/n Without changing the hearts and minds of those using COVID lockdowns and repression as a tools to achieve a broader agenda, rather than setting wise policy in the best interests of those affected, the suffering and devastation will not end.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 6/n In Bill Barr’s recent speech on the Constitution and the Rule of Law he described the qualities of a good prosecutor. They apply equally to those wielding authority to sentence millions to suffer under far-reaching policies dictated by governing leaders and health directors.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 7/n “A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness,

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 8/n “who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.”

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 9/n Many of those qualities, most especially humility, are sorely lacking if not completely absent among those wielding their power to impose COVID policy in states, cities and college campuses across the country.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 10/n And for those who argue such leaders lack knowing malicious intent while employing oppressively damaging policies, but nonetheless do so “only” out of ignorant or arrogant refusal to follow sound science and compassion,

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 11/n the following CS Lewis passage, also referenced by Bill Barr in his brilliant address, could not be more apt.

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 12/n “It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;

@stacey_rudin @princesseffel @ColleenHuberNMD 13/13 “but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”

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