Professor Emily Oster recently published a piece in the Atlantic, calling for a Covid Amnesty. If I understood her intention correctly, by Amnesty she means the millions coerced, mandated, jabbed, insulted, humiliated, bullied and threatened should forgive the hundreds who had set up the system of said humiliation and bullying because we “didn’t know any better”
The piece made my blood boil in its bald-faced chutzpah and I wrote a five or six tweet thread on Twitter which enjoyed a solid response. Here’s the thread, somewhat amended for Substack:
Dear Professor Oster and all the other passengers on the "pandemic amnesty" train. Your gall, your unadulterated chutzpah truly takes the breath away. My father, may his memory be blessed, defined chutzpah as "taking a dump at my front door, then knocking to ask for toilet paper" Yours is worse. You're asking us to "forgive and forget" the greatest crime against humanity in 80 years and you're doing so in the pages of Atlantic magazine: the very publication in which Professor John Ioannidis laid out the facts about the nascent pandemic in March 2020. He urged caution and presented facts that were clearly contrary to the emerging narrative. In view of this, if nothing else, you cannot hide behind the “but we didn’t know” defense. Professor Ioannidis happens to be one of the most respected and most published scientists in his field. For his trouble, he was pilloried and ostracized by the likes of you and others who now want us to just move on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis
NEVER! I will no more forgive the perpetrators of this atrocity than I will forgive Dr. Mengele whose diabolical experiments my mother, z"l, was lucky to escape in Auschwitz where she was imprisoned 1942 - 1945 I am in no mood to forgive and in no mood to read your whining: "We didn't know" What utter crap. Yes, Ms. Oster, WE did know. You CHOSE not to know because you didn't have the fortitude to swim upstream, against the tide generated by Pharma and government-supported science "leaders" like Anthony Fauci, he of AZT fame, a key player in the AIDS boondoggle in the 1980's. I will never forget that period either. No amnesty. No forgiveness A public apology, jail time for the worst perps and legislation ensuring this will NEVER happen again You're barking up millions of wrong trees!
I had the same reaction to the article as you did, George. But I zeroed in on one phrase:
"In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And similarly, getting something wrong wasn't a moral failing."
These two sentences clearly show the arrogance of the author and people of her ilk.
Those of us who researched online, who sought out like-minded people in order to share sources, who risked ridicule and worse to try and disseminate the truth, were just "lucky". And yet mindlessly consuming mainstream media, advocating to deny healthcare to the unvaccinated, even imprison them or remove them from society, "wasn't a moral failing".
The author still feels morally superior to us, despite everything that's come to light recently. It's incredible.
Bravo!