Some of you may have seen this. But if I didn’t share it, after everything you and I went through, I’d be guilty of some sort of malpractice.
The page at Covid.gov, which redirects to a page on the White House website, now argues that the Covid “mitigation” efforts were useless and based more on superstition than science.
(I know I have subscribers who will say the “lab leak” controversy, prominently featured on the page, is a red herring. If you don’t like that part of the page, you can skip it. The rest is still worthwhile.)
Thus we read, for example:
The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation — which shut down schools and small business across the country — was arbitrary and not based on science. During closed door testimony, Dr. Fauci testified that the guidance “sort of just appeared.”
There was no conclusive evidence that masks effectively protected Americans from COVID-19. Public health officials flipped-flopped on the efficacy of masks without providing Americans scientific data — causing a massive uptick in public distrust.
Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state government policies forced millions of Americans to forgo crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life.
Naturally this doesn’t make up for the outrages and irrationalities that we normal people had to endure during those years.
But I want future historians to be aware that another perspective existed apart from the official line, and anything that helps that cause along is to be celebrated.
There are three lines the regime chooses from when it comes to crises:
— If you’d only listened to our wise management, things wouldn’t have turned out as they did.
— (For foreign policy crises) The U.S. government was just standing there, minding its own business, when it was attacked for no reason.
— If we hadn’t given you dolts so much freedom, this crisis wouldn’t have occurred.
Since our IQs are well above 80, you and I fall for none of these.
My own contribution to the cause of assisting whatever honest historians we may have in the future is of course my book Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.
I happen to think the book has many merits, but one that will be especially helpful to historians is this: unlike other studies of this topic (and there are numerous good ones), mine has its origins in a day-by-day chronicling of the madness.
That means I recorded for posterity a huge number of oddball daily goings-on that a historian looking only at the big picture is sure to miss.
The full story can’t be told without those daily doses of madness, because they recall what it was really like to live through those years.
If you still don’t have it, treat yourself to the audiobook version, in which you’ll hear my voice reading it — which means you’ll be treated to just that combination of sarcasm and contempt that the perpetrators of this horror deserve (and it features a foreword by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health):
https://www.tomwoods.com/diaryaudiobook
