Why We Shouldn't 'Forgive And Forget' The Pandemic Police
If We Do, You Know What They'll Ask Amnesty For Next Time
This week in The Atlantic, Emily Oster called for a “pandemic amnesty” when she wrote, “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.”
Oster goes on to justify the sheer nonsensical, authoritarian behavior of the COVID nutters is entirely defensible because, as she puts it, “we didn’t know”.
That much is true. In the beginning, we didn’t know.
We all watched in horror as Italy’s medical system completely melted down under the strain of COVID-19. We all saw the call put out in New York City for refrigeration trucks to store the bodies of those who died from the disease and that are still being used today.
And we even bore witness to the mass graves that were being dug on New York’s Hart Island.
Again, we didn’t know. It all seemed like a very sensible thing to do because we were frightened of a virus that would eventually claim the lives of over a million Americans in less time than the flu would do, even in a particularly bad season.
We didn’t know - until we did and, once we did know, society bifurcated into two factions: those who would take a stand for reality, rights, sanity, and humanity and those who fought for authoritarianism, ostracization, and vilification.
Emily Oster this week floated the idea of letting bygones be bygones over the pandemic lockdown madness. She wants amnesty from folks who weren’t allowed to hold hands with dying loved ones, schoolchildren abandoned to Zoom, normal people who were hounded and screamed at in supermarkets and department stores by mask Karens, and young, healthy workers who were fired because they didn’t want – and it turns out, probably didn’t need – a flawed vaccination.
The debate about the COVID vaccines’ efficacy won’t be settled anytime soon, although there’s good, solid evidence they may have saved the lives of many older recipients. But when it comes to the political reaction to the pandemic, Oster’s plea is a tacit admission that the science is settled: Masks are mostly useless, kids should have been in school, people had a right to decide whether they took the jab, and the finger-wagging yard-sign crowd behaved like monsters.
In fact, those very same finger-waggers demonstrated just how dangerous they are as they’ve revealed themselves to be the kind of people who will turn in their neighbors should the Nazis appear.
If the pandemic police get “amnesty” for setting a generation of children back two grades, cheering unemployment and even wishing death on skeptics of a hastily formulated COVID vaccine, you can bet they’re going to want a pardon for another cause in a year or two: the systematic and institutional maiming of thousands of kids who became confused about their gender.
Legions of minors who once experienced gender dysphoria and “changed” their gender are detransitioning. Their stories all share a frightening refrain: they were alienated and the very people they should have been able to trust encouraged them to believe they were trapped in the wrong body. They were subjected to treatments ranging from puberty blockers to breast surgeries that left them even more unhappy and permanently disfigured.
For now, the “science” seems to believe that an exploding percentage of people under 18 are transgender, and “helping” them requires affirming this warped idea that exists only in their heads by counselors, activists, and social media charlatans. Once-credible medical associations and prestigious hospitals support removing the breasts of young girls, injecting minors with hormones and drugs that will change them forever and endorsing a mental condition that should only be addressed with love and therapy.
I predict when the number of detransitioners hits critical mass, it will become crystal clear to everyone with an IQ and empathy above that of a grommet that it was all a cruel and grotesque illusion. Sterile and disfigured, they will form a column of anger aimed at all those who participated in these mad, Mengele-like experiments unfolding before our very eyes.
There will be nowhere to hide from their rage as they fully awaken to what has been done to them.
The advocates of the horrifyingly euphemistic “gender affirming care” will insist that they meant well. They will claim they were earnestly following the “science.”
They’ll say no one could possibly have known that carving up confused kids would ruin their lives but this time it will be up to parents whose children were stolen by pronoun-obsessed groomers, boys whose journey to manhood will never be complete, and women who were born girls but will never be moms.
God help them.
It's all unfolding according to plan. The oligarchs and their minions make billions in profits by terrorizing every segment of society into believing something that any sane, healthy well-adjusted society could never believe and then, when the truth inevitably starts to surface, gaslight people into believing that 'we meant no harm, really!' as they slither back into their boardrooms and mansions making yet more billions from the suffering and damage as people try desperately to repair their broken bodies, minds, hearts and relationships; most of which are now beyond repair.