Not much good can be said about the publication Newsweek, but for reasons not yet clear, it has allowed an opinion piece by Scott Atlas to appear under its banner. Something of an almost apology, apology.
As opinion, Newsweek can distance itself editorially but also lay claim to the perception of balance. Look what we printed. And why not? Admitting there were mistakes surrounding the pandemic has become hip and stylish the way carbon offsets purchased from doggy offsetters allow you to emit massive amounts of CO2 and pretend you care for the planet.
It’s as if Newsweek has laundered an apology by proxy for bad behavior that it probably has no intention of changing.
Almost all of America’s leaders have gradually pulled back their COVID mandates, requirements, and closures—even in states like California, which had imposed the most stringent and longest-lasting restrictions on the public. At the same time, the media has been gradually acknowledging the ongoing release of studies that totally refute the purported reasons behind those restrictions. This overt reversal is falsely portrayed as “learned” or “new evidence.” Little acknowledgement of error is to be found.
His point is that the revelations they reluctantly share can be found (backed by experts’ commentary or actual research) on websites like this one from April or May of 2020 onward, depending on when the media and public health went to war with whatever it was. The distancing scam, the masking fraud, assaults on the first and fourth amendments, Hydroxychloriquine, mRNA vaccination mandates, passports, pandemics of the vaccinated, Ivermectin, sudden deaths, and so on.
The press and the public health industrial complex labeled most or all of it as misinformation or disinformation, with some politicians ready to fine or jail anyone who had a way around the Big Gov/Big Tech collusion firewalls built to prevent folks from seeing or hearing any of it.
Someone has decided that truth is far enough in the rearview to hazard some narrative building whose purpose is to create a historical backstop. Look, we published this thing about the thing (which we might as well call COVID narrative offsets). So, what else did they allow Scott Atals to say in such proximity to their masthead?
Here are the 10 biggest falsehoods—known for years to be false, not recently learned or proven to be so—promoted by America’s public health leaders, elected and unelected officials, and now-discredited academics:
1. SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a far higher fatality rate than the flu by several orders of magnitude.
2. Everyone is at significant risk to die from this virus.
3. No one has any immunological protection, because this virus is completely new.
4. Asymptomatic people are major drivers of the spread.
5. Locking down—closing schools and businesses, confining people to their homes, stopping non-COVID medical care, and eliminating travel—will stop or eliminate the virus.
6. Masks will protect everyone and stop the spread.
7. The virus is known to be naturally occurring, and claiming it originated in a lab is a conspiracy theory.
8. Teachers are at especially high risk.
9. COVID vaccines stop the spread of the infection.
10. Immune protection only comes from a vaccine.
Dr. Atlas has the sense to call for investigations while admitting the likelihood they will not themselves be virtue signaling is low.
What benefit can we gain from the growth of this investment in covid narrative offsets besides a healthy I told you so? Almost no one appears in danger of judicial complications from the mRNA vaccine debacle though I still hold out hope the absence of proper informed consent has legal legs. That leaves us with the ammo dump of media rants, social and mainstream, by politicians and activists.
Bad judgment is not a sin, but when it endangers fundamental rights and lives while contradicting available truths, it could slow or stop political aspirations if appropriately directed and timely. Let’s call it Keeping Local Karens from Public Office.
Can we hope for more? Atlas calls for investigations, but Newsweek publishing that is not an admission but a bunker in which they wish to hide in hopes this will pass them by, but it can’t. The harms they aided and abetted could be with us for generations.
Can anyone say COVID reparations?
HT | Igor Chudov
