The same people (and their lickspittle sycophants) were wrong about inflation, were wrong about Russia, Russia, Russia and were wrong about covid (origin, case fatality rates, injection efficacy, lockdowns etc.)
As Auric Goldfinger said in the eponymous book and movie:
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." Miami, Sandwich and now Geneva. I propose to wring the truth out of you.
― Goldfinger
From City Journal, December 8:
The Covid Catastrophe
A new book calls elected leaders and public-health officials to account for their handling of the pandemic.
The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind, by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean (Portfolio/Penguin, 448 pp., $32)
The American response to the Covid pandemic was an unprecedented disaster— surely the costliest public-policy mistake ever made in peacetime—but most of the politicians, public-health officials, scientists, and journalists responsible still refuse to acknowledge the damage they caused. Many still pretend that the lockdowns and mandates were effective. Others argue that they did the best they could under the circumstances and dismiss critics as partisans trying to score political points. It’s time, they plead, for all of us to move on.
Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean have not moved on, and their new book, The Big Fail, is especially valuable for two reasons. First, it provides an insider’s view of how mistakes were made during the pandemic and how public-health officials and scientists blatantly violated basic principles of their professions. Second, these veteran journalists can’t be dismissed as conservative partisans. Nocera, who now writes for the Free Press, was a long-time op-ed columnist at the New York Times; McLean is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Their book attacks Republicans, especially Donald Trump, along with other targets that left-leaning readers love to hate, such as the business executives who run hospital chains and have made America dependent on factories in foreign countries for masks and other medical supplies.
But The Big Fail also shows Democrats how much needless harm their leaders caused, and its subtitle is a dagger aimed at a liberal’s bleeding heart: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind. Democrats in blue states reveled in moral superiority during the pandemic, denigrating the selfishness and stupidity of red staters who refused to lock down, close schools, and wear masks. They mocked #FloridaMorons on Twitter and proclaimed their devotion to “the common good.” The Right lambasted those Democrats for their virtue signaling (as in the Babylon Bee headline, “Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out ‘We’re All In This Together’ With Their Yachts”). The Big Fail chronicles why they deserved it.
“Early in the pandemic,” Nocera and McLean write, “Madonna released a video. Sitting in a bathtub surrounded by red roses, with dramatic music playing in the background, she said, ‘It doesn’t care about how rich you are, how famous you are, how funny you are, how smart you are, where you live, how old you are, what amazing stories you can tell. [The pandemic is] the great equalizer, and what’s terrible about it is what’s great about it.’ She could not have been more wrong.”
The Big Fail totes up the lockdown’s damages and shows that they enriched Silicon Valley’s corporate behemoths and protected the affluent and well-educated. At the same time, they disproportionately harmed small businesses and the vulnerable groups liberals profess to care about. While many private schools stayed open in blue states, most public schools closed, leading to drastic declines in student scores, particularly in high-poverty areas. Six thousand restaurants in New York State and 20,000 businesses in California closed permanently. Nationally, 2.5 million restaurant workers permanently lost their jobs. High school graduates’ unemployment rate soared to 17 percent, a number even higher among black and Hispanic workers and twice the college graduate unemployment rate.
“Maybe—maybe—the social and economic disasters that lockdowns created would have been worth it if they had saved lives,” the authors write. “But they hadn’t. Imposed without any prior evidence of their efficacy, lockdowns helped ‘flatten the curve’ in the short term, which was certainly beneficial for beleaguered hospitals, but their long-term utility was negligible. To look at a list of countries and their death tolls, you would scarcely be able to guess which ones used lockdowns as a mitigation strategy and which ones didn’t.”....
....MUCH MORE
If the reader is interested in more on Dr. Henderson and Dr. O'Toole we have on offer:- Lockdowns: The Epidemiologist and Public Health Giant Who Knew What Would Happen
- "Bioengineering The Age of Designer Plagues"
And:
"The Biorevolution: Its Implications for U.S. National Security, Economic Competitiveness, and National Power"
The author of this piece, Dr. Tara O'Toole is Senior Vice-President of the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel....
