The reaction to Covid has caused me to agree with people that I never thought I would agree about anything. God does love irony. Immense events demand that each of us decide how we will react to them, and sometimes the reaction surprises, both good and ill.
People are capable of change.
-TR
The clip went off topic but it was interesting and I enjoyed listening to the ministry that Robbins is involved in. I have participated in prison ministry as a layman and people truly are capable of change. Juan Diego R. was one such inmate that received deep peace and the ability to forgive himself which is a huge blockage for many incarcerated.
I think I linked this before but it is a good read. Basically everything done to mitigate the spread of Covid was useless. It is summed up thus: “…nothing that governments did had any effect. There was only cost, no benefit. Everywhere in the world.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-a-small-group-do-this/
Gee, what a shock. Covid acted just exactly like every other respiratory virus we know, just as every real epidemiology expert said it would, before they were silenced by the cabal of phony experts and grifters like Fauci, and the feckless local and state level politicians who followed their ridiculous advice because they could not resist the siren song of absolute power.
Hell needs a new circle just for the Covid totalitarians. The damage they did is beyond calculation. Pray that they repent in time to save their miserable souls.
One thing that the COVID hysteria showed is that science is not self correcting, at least not when it would be politically inconvenient for it to be so.
All the models were not only wrong, but ridiculously wrong. In Minnesota, the models used to justify lockdowns said that in the absolute best case scenario, with a longer lockdown and more accurate tests than we had in reality, there would be 22,589 deaths by April 2021. Currently stats list 16,020 deaths meaning that we still haven’t gotten to that number. Saying something like “but the vaccines helped!” doesn’t work since those weren’t available for the majority of the time period covered by the model. Other models are similarly far off from reality.
If science were self-correcting then everyone who made these models would be on the street, or at the very least they would have had to very publicly admit that their models were bad. This has not happened, and if you suggest that the models were bad you are still on thin ice. The next time we have an epidemic, the same statistical models and computer programs are likely to be used, as if they were reliable.