The judgement of history on the covid response is here

I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useless.

3. The report concludes lockdowns caused “more harm than good” to the economy, overall health of Americans and development of children.

4. Jay Battacharya, key author of the Great Barrington Declaration, who was shadowbanned by Twitter at the NIH's (and other government entities) instigation, will now be the director of the NIH.

5. Marty Makary, who was equally skeptical of mandates and lockdowns, will now head the FDA.

Almost everyone (maybe 80-90% in my estimate) now thinks that the covid restrictions, especially after the vaccines were widely available, were overdone and I am all but sure that people punished Democrats at the ballot box for chasing covid policy at the expense of other issues.

Just to cite one example - those free covid tests that they kept sending round after round of (as recently as a couple of months ago). The reaction almost everyone seems to have had to those are "I don't need more damned covid tests. Rather, why don't you take that $60 (or whatever it cost the government to send these) and help me pay by grocery bill, which is 70% higher than is was in 2019?" those tests are a laughingstock, and are emblematic of covid policy which ignore inflationary effects of these stimulus packages which were only made necessary by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

@sh76 said
I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useles ...[text shortened]... by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

@sh76 said
I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useles ...[text shortened]... by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

@mchill said
Pandemics make a mess out of everything, no matter who's in charge. Let's hope we don't have another one anytime soon.

@sh76 said
I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useles ...[text shortened]... by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

@sh76

Let's look at Page 300:

Finding: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Other Public Health Officials Falsely Implied that Ivermectin Was Only for Horses and Cows.

Throughout the pandemic, in the face of a deadly disease for which there were minimal treatments available, many doctors explored the use of drugs which were already approved for other indications.1154 This practice is called “off-label use” and is commonplace in the medical profession. This situation yielded one of the most egregious examples of the Biden Administration’s purveyance of misinformation—the FDA’s infamous statement which implied that Ivermectin was a veterinary drug for horses and cows and not for humans.1155 Specifically, the FDA tweeted on August 21, 2021, from its official Twitter (now X) account, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”1156 Which seemingly conflated the off-label prescription of Ivermectin as being the same as humans intentionally taking the veterinary version of the drug without a doctor.

Ivermectin is FDA approved to treat certain parasites in human and any implication that it is only for “horses” or “cows” is plainly false.

@sh76 said
I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useles ...[text shortened]... by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

Sorry @sh76.

I've read as much of this as I can stand. It's political grandstanding.

These guys are not epidemiologists.

As for a "lab leak" - I have no idea. COVID killed 1 million Americans before their time. I don't give a scat where it came from, and it doesn't matter at all.

But we are less prepared now for the next pandemic in 1 year, 10 years, or 20 years due to all this "resistance" to public health measures. People are going to fuuk up. Next virus may not be so 'nice' (not that this one was 'nice.' )

COVID killed more people over a MUCH shorter time than HIV.

@sh76 said
I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useles ...[text shortened]... by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

@sh76 said
I am on record over and over in 2021 and 2022 warning that the judgment of history is coming for the covid alarmists.

Well now,

1. The House Committee report released today supports the likelihood of the lab leak theory (for which you were a racist if you stated such in the early days)

2. The Committee report concludes that mask mandates and the 6-foot rules were useles ...[text shortened]... by artificial and mostly useless restrictions on public life (again, especially beyond early 2021).

@spruce112358 said
Public Officials During The Next Pandemic: "Stopping the spread of disease is simply not popular with voters, so in lieu of taking any action, here is a list of nutritional supplements that many Americans could benefit from. Also, wash your hands, lose weight, stop smoking, and drink plenty of water. Happy Holidays!" 😆

@sh76 said
"lose weight, stop smoking, and drink plenty of water" is a heck of a lot better advice to avoid serious illness from flu-like viruses than "stay in your house, stop going to work and school, stop socializing, wear a cloth mask (nose covering optional), stay 6 feet away from each other outdoors, fill the skateparks with concrete, shut down hiking trails and walk in one direction at the supermarket."

@no1marauder said
I recall you saying in March 2020 that this wasn't going to be any worse than a bad flu outbreak with maybe 30,000 or so deaths.

How does history judge those comments?

@sh76 said
I don't recall saying that.

I do recall the University of Washington model predicting 60,000 deaths in the first wave. Maybe I was citing that?

@no1marauder said
Unfortunately, I now find it impossible to research posts in the past here because I get a never-ending scroll rather than separate pages after 25 threads or so. But if you want to insist your level of COVID minimization was merely 60,000 deaths or so, the question still stands.