The Atlantic Insists On COVID Denial
Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute,
In a spectacular feat of reality-denying partisanship, the political left has convinced itself that they’ve somehow admitted wrongdoing on their extremist Covid policies. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be further from the truth.
As a reminder, the left, thanks in large part to Anthony Fauci, shut down businesses, schools, playgrounds, sports, and live events. They used curfews, capacity limits, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, created “tier-system” reopening charts based on nothing, dismissed the lab-leak hypothesis as a racist conspiracy theory, and labeled anyone who disagreed with them.
None of the politicians involved in this inexcusable, world-destroying, anti-science policy-making has apologized for any of it. Not one has admitted they were wrong. Fauci, a far-left politician himself, has not only never apologized or admitted wrongdoing, but had the audacity to say that criticisms of him and his policy positions were inexcusable criticisms of science itself.
The most that individuals like Gavin Newsom or other prominent members of the left will do is say that they didn’t know at the time what we know now. Except, of course, that’s also a complete lie.
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Left-Wing Media Continues with Covid Reality Denial
The Atlantic published an article by Jonathan Chait revisiting Covid lockdowns around the fifth anniversary of “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” And it made the remarkably inaccurate case that the left has engaged in a far-ranging “searching self-reflection” on their failed policies.
“Liberals have engaged in searching self-reflection—on school closings, the lab-leak hypothesis, the political aftereffects, and other unanticipated lessons. Conservatives have used the occasion to engage in a round of self-congratulations and taunting of the libs,” Chait writes.
This is, of course, nonsense.
Where is the “searching self-reflection” on mask mandates? Where is the “searching self-reflection” on vaccine mandates? Or firing thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, for refusing to get a vaccine that did nothing to stop infection or transmission? Where is the “searching self-reflection” on the businesses that were shut down, in many cases, permanently, because Democratic governors and mayors turned into fanatical extremists for years on end?
Where’s the apology for letting it all continue well after it was clear that their mandates and lockdowns weren’t working?
Chait’s delusional article only gets worse from there.
He claims that the shift in the lab-leak discussion shows how self-reflective the political left is on Covid. Praising Zeynep Tufecki for her intellectual honesty.
“Conservatives, who generally assume that the mainstream media are as ideologically rigid as the conservative media, appear not to have noticed any of this until Tufekci’s most recent contribution to the genre, which produced an onslaught of football-spiking. (Tufekci herself was skeptical of public-health guidance throughout the pandemic),” he writes.
Except Tufecki helped shut down self-reflection on masking by demanding that a prominent scientific institution contradict…
