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| Daniel McKnight |
Five years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit our shores and forced us into our homes, we’re in the midst of a strange sort of denialism.
You may remember schools being shuttered, small businesses being destroyed, and small children developing speech impediments because they were unnecessarily forced to wear masks. I certainly do.
But now it turns out no one supported any of that, and none of it was anybody’s fault.
It’s not just Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who’s been popping up every few weeks to lie that she super-duper, really and truly wanted schools open in 2020 and 2021, despite actually being the villain who kept the poorest kids out of classrooms for years.
Atlantic columnist Jonathan Chait and others have attempted it, too.
Now influential economist Tyler Cowen says we’re being too hard on the people who caused us so much needless pain and misery.
“A lot of people do not want to admit it,” he wrote this week in the Free Press, “but when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, the elites, by and large, actually got a lot right.”
Cowen weaves many unrelated pandemic measures together into a narrative that neatly absolves the elites of blame.
Yes, Operation Warp Speed produced a vaccine quickly — but no, most of the economic activity our businesses lost was not “going away in any case,” as he asserts.
Sure, he admits, “most states should have ended the lockdowns sooner” — then claims they “mattered less” than we all recall.
Furthermore, he declares, “those restrictions on our liberty proved entirely temporary.”
Gaslighting at its finest. --->READ MORE HERE
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The scientific community, when it takes up the next cause, should recognize that it is no small thing to infringe on personal autonomy.
As we now approach the five-year commemoration of the 2020 launch of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, it brings to mind another anniversary of “scientific consensus” — the eugenics movement a century ago.
In both cases, doctors and scientists joined with state authorities to control the most private and personal elements of people’s lives. And in both cases, resistance came from people of faith.
At their best, scientists have brought medical breakthroughs and technological innovations that have given us healthier, more productive, and more prosperous lives. But the scientific community has shown itself, time and again, to have a dark side as well: a tendency toward fads and politicization, an instinct for crushing dissent, and a penchant for social engineering and societal control.
America’s scientists and academics coalesced around eugenics in the early 20th century, amidst the rise of “progressive” ideology in government and academia. Eugenics, derived from the Greek eugenes (“good in birth”), was the belief that bad genes should be removed from society for the benefit of the human race.
Harvard University led the charge, as described in a 2016 report by Harvard Magazine.
“Harvard administrators, faculty members, and alumni were at the forefront of American eugenics — founding eugenics organizations, writing academic and popular eugenics articles, and lobbying government to enact eugenics laws,” author Adam Cohen wrote. “And for many years, scarcely any significant Harvard voices, if any at all, were raised against it.
“Eugenics attracted considerable support from progressives, reformers, and educated elites as a way of using science to make a better world,” Cohen added.
As detailed in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s 2024 book, Over Ruled, Harvard was not alone. Eugenics was also espoused by the first president of Stanford University, top professors at Yale, Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Margaret Sanger, and other prominent figures. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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