Say any of this in 2020 and you risked losing your job. You were mocked by sheep who constantly said that the science was settled. People died alone, kids suffered wearing futile masks, schools were closed, our economy was wrecked and churches were shuttered. Remember.
All Based Upon Lies, and All for Nothing
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I don’t wish anyone to Hell.
Some folks though, couldn’t stand Heaven so Hell will be their destination. A fitting retirement community for their eternity.
You’re going to make mistakes in such situations. Dr. Atlas account of his time in the administration suggests that Fauci, Birx, and Redfield were not error-prone officials, but comprehensively unfit to hold the positions they did.
Fauci is like a used car salesman. A used car salesman doesn’t force you to buy a dud car. You make that choice yourself.
I don’t blame him, I blame the governments who were lazy/negligent/drunk on power who listened to him.
Every international government took their instruction from Fauci. My own country which is as far from Fauci as you can get at the “ass-end” of the globe took their instruction from Fauci.
I have always said there isn’t a jail big enough to fit ALL the people who treated us like we were nothing.
Sort of reminds us that when we hear the term “expert”, a red flag should immediately go up.
Art:
As a teacher I fully understand closing the schools for the spring of 2020, until facts could be sorted out, but keeping them closed 2020-21 and resisting reopening in 2021-22 (which the unions did in a screaming panic) was obscene. According to our math and tech teachers our SF Catholic school kids took three semesters to recover skills to where their peers had been 2019-20. That’s with Cordileone fighting the state of California however he could and a great network of tech teachers making Zoom work as best they could.
In the San Francisco archdiocese we reopened with the Zoom option in November 2020, and we were fully open without Zoom in August 2021, although masking stayed (by state rules) until spring 2022.
At least the public schools are paying, with school choice exploding and home-schooling more popular than ever. When will Fauci and Co. pay?
And some let them shut Churches.
The current DOJ won’t do anything.
I won’t ever forget. I listened to an exorcist podcast who stated that simple exorcisms during that time were harder. I wonder why…
In 2020 my grandmother had several health events that meant that she needed round the clock care. Much of the family visited, but the bulk of the burden fell on my mother since she was a registered nurse and thus could assist in ways that many of the rest of us could not. As a result she spent twelve hours a day, covering the night shift, at my grandparent’s house for two weeks until we could find a live-in nurse to hire.
She would work 10 hours at the hospital, go to her own home for about half an hour, drive several cities over to my grandparents and do everything that needed to be done that the people before couldn’t handle, stay overnight and assist my grandmother several times during the night, get up at 5AM to help prepare breakfast and handle my grandmother’s morning duties, and leave for work before 8AM. This meant that she was constantly working each day and got 5 hours of sleep a night if she was lucky.
Her coworkers said that she should just put my grandmother into a nursing home. And the most insulting thing was, they said that she was a bad daughter for not doing that. The thought process was that my grandmother shouldn’t see any of her relatives because then she’d have less risk of catching COVID. Nothing else mattered.
At one point after my grandmother was hospitalized, we did have her in a nursing home so that her house could get renovations to make care easier. It was supposed to be just for a few days, but it was almost a month before the doctors agreed it was “safe” to let her out. During this time only my grandfather was allowed to see her (after a long drive to another city), and only outside for fifteen minutes, and if it was too hot they wouldn’t let her go outside. My grandfather drove over there every day and was not even allowed to see his wife most of the time.
When she got back it was clear that she had been neglected. She had been going through therapy due to experiencing dementia and having mobility issues. Before going to the nursing home she was able to at least walk a short distance with her walker. After getting back from the nursing home she struggled to even adjust herself in her chair. At home we went through the therapy again and by the time that she died (a couple years later, not from COVID) she was finally to about the point where she was before going to the nursing home. We later determined that they would just have her sit in her room in front of a television, ask her if she wanted to exercise once a day, and after one refusal (which would always happen since she was an ornery old woman with dementia) they would leave her in that chair all day, only coming back to her to feed her and to put her into her bed. Three weeks like that.
And there are tons of people who still think that being forced into that environment was better for her than living at home with her family.
Re Fauci, do the Feds still have capital punishment?
RH- your story is a nightmare that I’m sorry you and many had to endure. My story was 15 years before Covid- My late grandmother who was bid-ridden for 5 years after a stroke ended up in a nursing home. She needed round the clock physical care. She was paralysed from the stroke. Although it was a Maronite run nursing home, she was left most of the day to sit in her chair, getting depressed by the day with her dementia accelerating. We visited her multiple times a week, as did the rest of the extended family. But this is how these homes operate at their best. They are not happy places. Especially if you are disabled. It’s up to the family to ensure on their behalf that they are not neglected. I’d rather go from this life then end up nursing home Care. We really had no choice with our beautiful Grandma. I just wish these places weren’t operated like a business.
Nothing is going to happen to any of these people. They have been re-elected, and Trump let it happen on his watch, so if he wins, he won’t collect scalps either. That would require him to admit that he was both wrong and manipulated. Mr. Alpha won’t–can’t–do that.
And some tentative research suggests the mRNA shots may account for the elevated excess deaths–but remember that Sweden had high vaccination rates and no such problems. It was probably the lockdowns, what with the unemployment, depression, lack of physical activity and the like that stains their hands with blood.
This was the tyranny for which revolutions were made. But here, no one is going to jail for it. A few uncomfortable moments before legislative committees is all they will have to endure.
Shame on us.
It wasn’t all based on lies, and it wasn’t all for nothing. The initial shutdowns for a couple of weeks likely did slow the spread. Before we knew it was primarily transmitted through the air, the amount of hand sanitizer made sense, and after we knew that, a certain amount of distancing was prudent. The injections (“vaccines”) reduced severity and probably netted to a reduction in transmissions.
As we understood things better or the crisis changed, we should have dropped bad ideas, but we hardly ever did. I don’t care if it was 1 meter in England or 6 feet here, but there was no reason for schools to be shut down continuously for a year and off-and-on for another year. There was no reason for national injection campaigns or requirements. There was no reason for Masses to be shut down beyond the first couple of months. As we understood treatment better, to the extent that we looked at the data, we should have adapted. Some states / dioceses did. Reasonable people did. A lot of jurisdictions were run by unreasonable people (whether due to fear or power-rush).
I agree with Pinky. When the pandemic first started, no one knew for sure how virulent or deadly it would be. There were videos circulating of Chinese people dropping dead in the streets (didn’t find out until much later those were propaganda). So it was understandable that the health authorities just tried anything they could think of that MIGHT work to stop the spread. Also, the original idea behind the lockdowns was “two weeks to slow the spread” just long enough to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed with incoming patients.
That said, by the late summer/early fall of 2020 it should have been evident to all that COVID was not the second coming of the Black Death, nor was it even the second coming of the Spanish Flu. Plus, when the CDC and others suddenly decided that Black Lives Matter demonstrations were not a problem (because racism was supposedly a worse public health threat) after forbidding church and family gatherings for months, that was the point at which their restrictions lost any credibility. Shutting down schools for the last months of the 2019-20 academic year may have made sense, but not in 2020-21 or beyond, by which time it was evident that children and teenagers were at very little risk from COVID.
Additionally, I would not blame anyone for accepting the initial vaccines in 2021 when the Delta variant was going around. After Omicron began spreading in late 2021 and it became obvious that vaccination wasn’t stopping the spread, and the tune changed to “you have to have multiple boosters”, that was the time to get off the vaccination train.
Additionally, children now entering 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades who were in preschool or kindergarten during the COVID restrictions are still running significantly behind in their verbal skills and reading ability because they didn’t get to experience normal, un-masked communication with their teachers and other students during a very critical time in their development.
Elaine:
My Catholic grade school reopened fall 2021, which may be why I perceive no verbal losses among the kids I interacted with until June ’22 (when I retired) and every Wednesday until yesterday, when I volunteered for yard duty. Still, I knew a few of my own 7-8 students who developed mental health issues that (per their parents) were not straightened out until the end of their freshman year of high school.
Pinky:
It’s easier to defend the stuff that did work when you admit as early as you can the stuff that didn’t. If Fauci and Co. knew the second but didn’t say, they must be called to account.
Pinky said:
“The initial shutdowns for a couple of weeks likely did slow the spread. … The injections (“vaccines”) reduced severity and probably netted to a reduction in transmissions.”
Likely? Probably? These statements are less than conjecture. There is zero evidence of the spread slowing or of severity or of transmission reduction.
When asked in this hearing whether the “vaccines” had the effect of stopping transmission, Fauci’s response was: “Not a high effect“.
But the most offensive back-and-forth in this hearing was his continuing (with the help of a Democrat fanboi) to take credit for saving “millions of lives” and claiming the unvaxed were “responsible for an additional 200,000 to 300,000 deaths in this country.”
Neither of those statements are based on data either! But leave it to Fauci to deflect and divide while praising himself.
By all means, let’s keep shaming and vilifying the disobedient! It’ll help keep the rest of the population in line.