On Halloween, Emily Oster wrote an article for the Atlantic about COVID mandates and the draconian lockdowns. The title of her piece was “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty.” She wants to be friends now. Kinda. Her article wasn’t just about mandates and lockdowns, it was her contrition that, gosh, her side might have been wrong. She asked that those who refused to be cowed (and who turned out to be right) should offer grace to the bullies. The absurd mandates, gaslighting and witch-hunting from elected politicians and non-elected bureaucrats might have been wrong but heck, ruining lives and wrecking the economy was all done in good faith. Sorry.
In her opening paragraph, Oster described how she and her family wore cloth masks outdoors. Oster describes how she conditioned her four-year-old to yell “SOCIAL DISTANCING!” at total strangers. She added that at the time she turned her kid into a tiny tyrant, “we didn’t know” that transmission in the sun-drenched open air was “vanishing rare.” Actually, we did know, Emily. Unless you were a card-carrying cultist, or you had the IQ of a cumquat or the common sense of a Darwin Award winner, you knew that wearing a cloth mask on a beach was Kabuki theater. I wasn’t confronted by Emily’s junior Fauci but I was insulted by people like her. People wearing masks gave me space like I was a rabid bear. They signaled their disgust with my rule-breaking with palms out and saucer eyes. On one occasion a woman yelled at me from 50 yards away. She demanded that I put a mask on. Up to a few months ago, I saw preschoolers in the park wearing masks.
In Florida, a local attorney came to fame when he bought a grim-reaper costume and attempted to shoo away people on the beach. That attorney, named Daniel Uhlfelder, ran for Attorney General in Florida. He didn’t even make it out of the Democrat primary. Even Democrats had tired of his act.
Lockdowns and masks were why we haven’t had a flu epidemic for the past 2 years. Now that people are letting their guard down, flu and RSV are spreading like wildfire. It’s not a coincidence.
We did have a flu season last year, they just called it COVID.
Bullshit 1:51, keep wearing that worthless mask in your car while you drive alone you idot. Yes that will surely save your life. I hope you live forever.
We’re told to believe the science. The science turned out to be unsubstantiated and often made in a dream factory. A few at the top made scandalous money, idiot politicians actually murdered people in nursing homes, and American was put into unnecessary lockdown. We were hoodwinked.
if you think the elites and the government are looking you for you and your loved ones then you are an idiot! you are their slaves you just to stupid to realize it! put your trust in God not man!