Remember that time at COVID Narrative Camp when you said, I don’t think lockdowns are a good idea, especially for kids with little or no signs of infection or transmission of the Wuhan Flu? That they’d be worse than any risk of COVID.
They called you a racist and said you wanted people to die. Well, it turns out you were right.
The discussion around the effects of Covid policies on children confirms that we are entering a phase of “narrative collapse” in the perception of how the crisis was handled. But it still needs to be accepted that keeping a lid on the spread of Covid without closing schools is a fantasy; there is therefore no way to reconcile the philosophy of lockdown with avoidance of harm to children. The only coherent strategy is one of focused protection, in which vulnerable people are protected without imposing egregious costs on those not at risk.
I’m not convinced about the narrative collapse bit, but I think people are beginning to understand how poorly the COVID response was handled. There are entire generations of kids whose ability to read and write has been compromised so severely that they may never fully recover.
There’s no excuse for that or the difficulty it will create for them till their last day on earth, which, if the COVIDIOTS are still in charge, might be sooner than was once considered normal. Life Expectancy, a long-time cudgel wielded by the progressive Public Health Industrial Complex, has declined under their tyrannical demands.
The push for socialized responses to public health was supposed to lower costs and increase longevity and quality of life. There is no evidence of or history for this, but that was their claim throughout the push to advance ObamaCare. There would be no more unnecessary tests, treatments, or surgeries, and reduced insurance and care-cost premiums. As is typically the case, Government meddling resulted in the opposite. Government interference has caused massive harm, death, and loss of quality of life. The economic interventions have added significant generational debt on the backs of future taxpayers not yet born. And if that were not enough, the Progressive’s latest hill to die on is an exponential increase in elective treatments and surgeries on children under the guise of “curing” gender dysphoria – another effort destined to doom America’s youth.
Everything the political class touches turns to crap.
I get that more people have woken up to this truth, but will it ever be enough? Most Americans want to dismiss it as poisoned water under the red-listed bridge. Go back to whatever passes for normal. They must understand that the only normal the Left will accept is one where you cannot, nor are you ever left alone. A fact most will refuse to believe until it happens to them, and by then, it will be too late.
Or is it already too late?
