Yesterday, the COVID crisis ended. Officially.
That is, on May 11, 2023, the “public health emergency” expired, following the termination of the “national emergency” over a month earlier.
Jordan Schachtel, writing at The Dossier on Substack, did the math and noted that this “marks an incredible 1196 Days To Slow The Spread.”
“That’s right,” Mr. Schachtel elaborated. “Almost three and a half years of engaging in peak absurdity in the name of stopping [the] virus. And yet, the ‘experts’ don’t have a single thing to show for it.”
Remember why our leaders wanted to “slow” that “spread”: not to save lives over all. They admitted that the gross numbers of the affected couldn’t be affected by the half-a-month lockdown and mask mandates that Anthony Fauci and President Donald Trump pushed. They argued merely that lockdowns might “flatten” the distribution of cases and personal crises over time to alleviate a bottleneck — crowding — for a brief, initial pandemic period in the nation’s hospitals.
That was it.
That was the rationale.
But after the 15 days were over, almost none of the emergency pandemic units set up by the military had been used to take hospital overflow. Either (a) the 15 days had been enough, or (b) it had all been unnecessary. The answer is (b).
Everything else was just politics — the extended lockdowns, mask mandates, suppression of alternative treatments, the massive subsidies and vaccine mandates and passports and much else. What it sure seemed like? A vast jury-rigged scheme to get people to take the experimental “vaccines” then being rushed through the regulatory process.
Indeed, one thing was very clear from Day 16 onward: a “national” policy made no sense, for the pandemic hit regions of the country at different times and to different degrees. New York got hit hard in 2020, but the Pacific Northwest’s hospitals were mostly empty during the pandemic — causing a very different “beds” stressor.
Yet our politicians pushed a national policy of emergencies that lasted, at the very least, 1181 days too long.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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3 replies on “On the 1197th Day…”
Not only did the ’emergency’ last too long, it came at great cost — to those who pushed it. I can’t speak for others, but my trust in public health officials has cratered. I don’t know if I’ll ever trust them again. Nothing they say can be taken at face value anymore. Government became a monster instead of a service.
One way or another, many people were radicalized by how those at the commanding heights of culture have behaved in response to the release of SARS-CoV‑2.
Some of those most radicalized do not recognize their radicalization. But, given a choice of whether to continue accepting the mainstream narrative as it discarded any idea of principles limiting state power, they have become totalitarians.
The “Covid” lockdowns, etc. were never about health.
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They were about control.