More Covid policy corruption, collusion and confusion

Per a sister-in-law, when they write the history of Covid, much of it will be explained by billing -- errors and incentives. The economic and political incentives aligned to classify as many deaths and cases as possible under the Covid label, regardless of the ambiguity of the cause of death, the inability to discern a single cause of death, and the economic incentives to -- when in any doubt at all, however minuscule -- blame Covid...and then Donald Trump.

The Vicious Circle of Covid Boondoggles and Bad Data - WSJ.pdf

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Earlier this month, we received a confession of sorts from one of the leading policy makers on Covid restrictions, detailed here.

And today we find that another leading policy maker openly admit to lying about Covid vaccines to manipulate Americans.

And here is the "highly effective" lie from Fauci about the vaccines. Then, along with Biden, more lies about vaccines, vaccinated people, e.g., don't catch the virus, can't pass it along.

And Rachel Walensky lies about vaccinated people "not carrying the virus."

Then there are the calls for "amnesty" for those who promulgated false recommendations. As one commentator noted, let's start with tribunals, then we can determine who gets amnesty.

And more, here. Opening graphs follow:

It has been three years since COVID-19 entered the scene. It probably emerged in the previous year based on COVID antibodies found in banked blood from the fall of 2019 and a severe non-influenza respiratory illness sweeping through ICUs in the early winter of 2019. In those days it was simply called the Chinese coronavirus, based on the reported origin but we still don’t know that for sure.

In fact, much of what we have been told about COVID over the past three years has turned out to be “misinformation”, as government, corporate media, and big tech described everything that went against their preferred COVID narrative. Who are the real deniers?

Start with the origin of the Chinese coronavirus, initially said to have definitively originated in a Wuhan market due to a chance encounter of a bat with a pangolin. The latter supposedly ended up on someone’s dinner table, the virus making a miraculous leap from bat to pangolin to human in record time with no intermediate hosts or time to mutate.

In fact, the virus was likely man-made, manufactured via gain of function research which Dr Anthony Fauci adamantly denied. Such research is illegal in the US but not elsewhere in the world. “The Pentagon reportedly controls bioweapons labs in some 25 different countries including Ukraine.” What are they doing in those labs? Will the Republican-controlled Congress ask

Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told a Senate committee, “Ukraine has biological research facilities.” Could have that been a factor in Putin’s Ukraine invasion? The media and Congress are incurious.

Recently released Project Veritas undercover videos captured Pfizer executive Dr. Jordon Trishton Walker unraveling some COVID yarns. When asked, “So, Pfizer ultimately is thinking about mutating COVID?” he replied, “Well, that is not what we say to the public. No.” That sure sounds like gain of function, or as the Pfizer executive euphemistically called it, “directed evolution”.

A column in liberal Newsweek by a medical school student is asking for Covid policy "scientists" to admit that they were wrong. Okay, maybe a confession, then a tribunal, fines and prison sentences, banishment from the public arena and policy-making, then a request for mercy/amnesty. Key excerpts follow, with multiple source links:

As a medical student and researcher, I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19.

I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise. I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters.

I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives.

I can see now that the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young. All of these were scientific mistakes at the time, not in hindsight. Amazingly, some of these obfuscations continue to the present day.

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We crafted policy for the people without consulting them. If our public health officials had led with less hubris, the course of the pandemic in the United States might have had a very different outcome, with far fewer lost lives.

Instead, we have witnessed a massive and ongoing loss of life in America due to distrust of vaccines and the healthcare system; a massive concentration in wealth by already wealthy elites; a rise in suicides and gun violence especially among the poor; a near-doubling of the rate of depression and anxiety disorders especially among the young; a catastrophic loss of educational attainment among already disadvantaged children; and among those most vulnerable, a massive loss of trust in healthcare, science, scientific authorities, and political leaders more broadly.

My motivation for writing this is simple:

It's clear to me that for public trust to be restored in science, scientists should publicly discuss what went right and what went wrong during the pandemic, and where we could have done better.

It's OK to be wrong and admit where one was wrong and what one learned. That's a central part of the way science works. Yet I fear that many are too entrenched in groupthink—and too afraid to publicly take responsibility—to do this.

Solving these problems in the long term requires a greater commitment to pluralism and tolerance in our institutions, including the inclusion of critical if unpopular voices.

Intellectual elitism, credentialism, and classism must end. Restoring trust in public health—and our democracy—depends on it.

And the science is clear, masks provide little or no effectiveness in combatting Covid.