The Atlantic article, titled “Declaring a Pandemic Amnesty” and published Monday, written by Brown University economics professor Emily Oster, attempted to argue that proponents of lockdown measures “did not know” that cloth masks were not effective, external transmission of the virus non-existent and motivated through “deep uncertainty. “
Conservatives on social media criticized the article and “repaired” the post by giving it far more negative responses than retweets and likes.
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“The most irritating thing I’ve read in a long time,” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich tweeted. ‘unvaccinated’, censored, etc. We were given the knowledge in May 2020. These other people were ignored. Not”
“It’s funny how calls for amnesty come in before Republicans take the issue into their own hands,” Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe tweeted.
“Oh, no, @ProfEmilyOster,” tweeted Fox News chief meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost any of her in-laws to the coronavirus while staying in nursing homes in New York City. “Many of us will never forgive or forget. Especially when it reaches the elderly people who died in nursing homes after leaders flooded their apartments with covid patients and never told us or them. They knew better. We deserve justice first. “
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“Heck, no,” the popular conservative Twitter account LibsofTikTok posted. “I’ll never know what the Democrats did: how they destroyed thousands of lives by forcing schools/businesses to close, other people died alone in hospitals while nurses danced because they didn’t. “Allowing visitors, thousands lost their jobs for refusing a vaccine, the list goes on and on. “
“The pardon comes after an apology,” said conservative commentator Lauren Chen. Remember how you encouraged family circle members to push each other out and eliminate non-vaccinations?Maybe a little ‘I’m sorry for that’ would be a smart position to start. “
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“In April 2020, no one contracted the coronavirus while colliding with another person on a walk. Outdoor transmission is incredibly rare,” Oster wrote in the article. we didn’t know. “
The article adds: “The popular saying is that those who make history are doomed to repeat it. But the fact that the mistakes of history can also lead to a catastrophic repetitive cycle. Let’s recognize that we’ve made confusing possible choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then take a look at the paintings in combination to reconstruct and move forward. “
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In an email to Fox News Digital, Oster said the coronavirus pandemic “has created a lot of upheavals that we still want to face and repeating what we’ve done right or wrong during a dubious time may not move us forward. “
“The student verification effects showed historical declines,” Oster continued. “Routine immunization rates of formative years (for measles, pertussis, etc. ) are declining. We want to collect data, experiment and invest. We want to move forward, because we are wasting daylight to get this generation of young people back to normal. “
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Several studies have been published in the wake of government-imposed coronavirus lockdowns, showing the negative effects of lockdowns, and a study is added that appears to reduce the coronavirus death rate by 0. 2%.
In addition, a conservative think tank Just Facts defined several spaces in which they reported studies showing the ineffectiveness of various lockdown measures, adding mask dresses, months before the mainstream media did the same.
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A Monmouth University ballot released in March asked respondents whether they “oppose the advent or reinstatement of face mask and social distancing guidelines” in their state at this time. Sixty percent of Democrats said him, compared with 12 percent of Republicans.
The vast majority of Americans, 73%, said they agreed with the sentiment that “it’s time for us to settle for COVID being here to stay and that we just want to get on with our lives. “
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