To the fullest all American leaders have withdrawn their COVID mandates, requirements and closures, even in states like California, which had imposed the strictest and longest-lasting restrictions on the public. At the same time, the media has identified the ongoing publication of studies that completely refute the alleged reasons for those restrictions. This open investment is falsely described as “learned” or “new evidence. “There is little recognition of errors. We have not noticed any public excuse to spread false information, or to vilify and delegitimize policy experts and medical scientists like me, who have spoken very well about data, folk wisdom about viral infections and pandemics, and fundamental biology.
Old registration is essential. We have noted a macabre Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and blame the failure of widespread blockades on critics of the blockades, along with absurd denials of the implacable demands of officials themselves. the arm of the White House coronavirus task force during the first year of the pandemic. In this capacity, he drafted all written federal policy recommendations for governors and states and personally pleaded with each state’s public fitness officials on official visits, with Vice President Mike Pence, who oversaw the entire task force. At President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Dr. Anthony Fauci became a lead medical adviser and led Biden’s pandemic response.
We will have to acknowledge the abject failure of Birx-Fauci’s policies. They were enacted, but they could not save the dying, they could not prevent the infection from spreading, and they inflicted great damage and destruction, especially on low-income families. and American children.
More than one million deaths have been attributed in the U. S. The U. S. government has this virus. Even after draconian measures, adding school closures, closure of non-COVID-related healthcare, business closures, non-public restrictions, and then maintaining restrictions and mandates in the presence of a vaccine, there has been an undeniable failure, in two presidential administrations, to prevent cases from rapidly escalating.
Many experts, including John Ioannidis, David Katz and myself, have called for specific protection, a safer option than widespread blocks, in the national media as of March 2020. This proposal was rejected. The greatest public health policy failure in history came from those who enforced the lockdowns and those who implemented them, not those who pleaded otherwise.
The tragic failure of reckless and unprecedented lockdowns that ran counter to established science on pandemics, and the greater harm those policies cause to children, the elderly, and low-income families, is undeniable and well documented in studies. He was the biggest and most tragic public fitness leadership and unethical public fitness in fashion history.
In a democracy, indeed in any moral and relaxed society, facts are essential. The other American people want to hear the facts, the facts, free from political distortions, misrepresentations and censorship. The first step is to state the concrete facts, obviously, in the most powerful imaginable terms. Lies have been told. These lies have hurt the public. These lies were directly contrary to the evidence, decades of wisdom about viral pandemics and shaped fundamental biology.
Here are the 10 biggest lies, known for years as false, recently learned or shown as such, promoted through U. S. public health officials. U. S. officials, elected and unelected officials, and now-discredited academics:
1. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a much higher mortality rate than influenza by several orders of magnitude.
2. Everyone is at risk of dying from this virus.
3. No one has immune protection, because this virus is new.
4. Other asymptomatic people are the main drivers of the spread.
5. Closure: Final schools and businesses, confinement of other people in their homes, prevention of non-COVID health care, and elimination, will prevent or eliminate the virus.
6. Se will make masks to everyone and contagion will be avoided.
7. The virus must be of herbal origin, and claiming it comes from a laboratory is a conspiracy theory.
8. Teachers are most at risk.
9. COVID vaccines prevent infection.
10. Immune coverage comes from a vaccine.
None of us are naïve enough to expect direct apologies from critics of my employer, Stanford University, or from government, educational public health, and the media. and advisers with conflicts of interest will be held accountable. Personally, I remain very skeptical that any government investigation or commission can prevent politicization. Regardless of their intent, all such government-led investigations will at least be perceived as politically motivated. And their findings will be categorically rejected by many. However, those investigations will have to continue, if only to look for the fact, to teach our young people that fact matters, and not forget the essential lesson of G. K. Chesterton that ” good is good, even though no one does. Evil is evil, even if everyone is wrong. “
Scott W. Atlas, MD, is Robert Wesson’s Senior Fellow in Health Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, co-director of the Global Liberty Institute, a founding member of the Hillsdale Academy of Sciences and Freedom, and A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight in the Trump White House to Prevent COVID from Destroying America (Bombardier Press, 2022).
The perspectives expressed in this article are those of the author.
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