A year ago today, scores of vaccinated people spread Covid-19 to each other at several events on Cape Cod, proving that the mRNA vaccines don't stop onward transmission & that the vaxxed carry comparable viral loads. By July 30, even the CDC admitted this. cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc…
This was ignored by virtually all institutions, which soon mandated the jab for youth sports, universities, employment & travel. Passports were required for restaurants, gyms, events & shops, creating a 2-tiered society. People were coerced into the vax. Some were harmed or died.
There are still people today who are barred from their careers, including doctors & nurses. Hubris, along with a complex intertwining of morality with the jab, have meant that many organizations & gov'ts refuse to walk back their policies, while some threaten to bring them back.
None of this "followed the science". It has been misinformation at best & very likely disinformation. Doctors & scientists who challenged the narrative on mandates or lockdowns were disciplined or shamed. Only now is the truth slowly being acknowledged.
Group-level psychological phenomena were evidently at play over the last 2+ years, but some who pushed these unprecedented, destructive & even deadly policies clearly knew what they were doing. As the truth & consequences become more evident, expect unrest.
To have any hope of maintaining our institutions, principled, courageous leaders need to emerge quickly—on backbenches, boards, in media. Wrongdoers must be held accountable within the parameters of the rule of law & norms that keep us civilized must be restored & recommitted to.
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Our population is divided, possibly beyond repair. We don't just disagree, we live in completely separate & irreconcilable realities. We have different facts, different science, different media, different narratives, different values. We view each other as distorted caricatures.
When we engage primarily online, our echo chambers keep us apart. But the truckers inserted their messy, physical, salt-of-the-earth reality into the urbane pseudo-reality that holds all cultural & political power. For a brief moment, the power balance shifted to team reality.
Repressive tolerance is the operating system of the cultural elite. They cannot and will not tolerate this incursion, this infringement of *their* freedom to not have to engage with those whose temperament or life circumstances place them squarely on team reality.
Re-upping this thread I wrote in May of 2020. I've been speaking out about lockdowns and the broader impacts to society since the very beginning. Sadly, I think my concerns then were justified.
Watch for a rush to the exits, as journalists, scientists & politicians throw the nearest guy under the bus & try to pretend they were never in favour of lockdowns. It will happen in the UK first, where there are still the remnants of a culture of debate & verbal sparring.
It will pick up steam elsewhere too, as the latest hysteria becomes impossible to reconcile with the facts on the ground & serious inquiry finally begins. Here's a taste in Canada, soon to be in the 'mainstream' rags too:
Those who said from Day 1 that lockdowns weren't justified on the evidence, or noted that harms outweighed benefits, or expressed reasonable & well-informed concerns about mandating vaccines, were censored & vilified. I welcome any turnabout but lament that it has taken so long.
Things seem to be in complete chaos in this province, as fears of Omicron relieve our decision makers & managerial class of their senses (what’s left of them). Here are 10 policy suggestions for @fordnation to keep the wheels on & bring the chaos to heel before the next election:
i) Provide home test kits to ease minds & recommend that people isolate themselves if positive. Otherwise, stop testing asymptomatic people, and stop recording cases. They are untethered from hospitalizations and deaths (that’s a good thing) and we need to stop focusing on them.
ii) Stop contact tracing. Everyone is going to get this, & for virtually everyone it will be mild. People should stay home with symptoms, but otherwise carry on with their lives. If you isolate everyone exposed, no one will be at work and critical infrastructure will be at risk.
I've been contacted by many specialist physicians who are about to lose hospital privileges because of these mandates. Their reasons for not complying are unique, informed & rational, but virtually no exemptions are being granted. Mandates WON'T make them change their minds. 1/5
These doctors will leave their hospitals, maybe even their careers & very likely the country. There are friendly US states that pay doctors better anyway, & don't require the jab in order to work.
Another brain drain is about to ensue. 2/5
The mandates don't make logical sense anyway, for a vaccine that does not stop transmission, that is likely only effective for about six months & has considerable risks, known and unknown. And all for a virus that is manageable for about 99% of the working age population. 3/5
"The events of the last year have made the culture shift undeniable. Group rights are in. Individual rights are out." theepochtimes.com/covid-response…
"It is remarkable that the notion of voluntary, informed consent—the hallmark of medical treatment in a civilized society—is now seen as an unreasonable and selfish obstacle to unquestionable goals.
"Like virtually all of our Covid responses, mandatory, universal vaccination is unmoored from past practices, plans, evidence, & rationality. It has taken on a moral urgency, fuelled by a collective fear that instinctively steamrolls over individual rights, desires, & interests.