MSM wants forgiveness over COVID-19, why?
The mainstream media has for years been touting the success of COVID-19 interventions, such as lockdowns (source) and vaccines (source).
Now, mainstream news source The Atlantic publishes a piece calling for the people harmed by COVID-19 interventions to ‘forgive and forget’. After all, the author states, “we lacked definitive data” about the efficacies of the vaccines, mistakes weren’t “nefarious”, but “the result of uncertainty”. Apparently, “most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society”. Continuing: “We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty… we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go. We need to forgive the attacks, too. … Student test scores have shown historic declines, more so in math than in reading, and more so for students who were disadvantaged at the start. We need to collect data, experiment, and invest. … Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward.” Source.
Okay then.
Note: Some questions you may like to ask. Why are we now being effectively asked to ‘forgive and forget’? Weren’t all the interventions necessary and successful, like we’ve been told all this time? Is the increasing evidence against the lockdowns and vaccine mandates, with negative vaccine effectiveness (the notion that the vaccines are more likely to make people get and even die from COVID-19) being just one concern, about to become too obvious for the populace to ignore? If “we lacked definitive data”, and there was such “deep uncertainty”, shouldn’t our leaders, particularly those of countries built around the notion of liberty, have “collect(ed) data” and “experiment(ed)” until they were very sure, before forcing drastic interventions on their people? If “most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society”, will they, for the good of society, give any profits they made during the past few years to the people they harmed? Who, exactly, must do the forgiving? Those whose lives were ruined, and even ended, by the lockdowns? The children forever damaged by the use of face masks and having being denied traditional schooling? Those injured and killed by the COVID-19 vaccines? Those who potentially will be injured or killed by the COVID-19 vaccines in the near future? Their loved ones? Those who refused the vaccines, and were thus demonised, isolated, and even denied the opportunity to earn a living, travel, and so forth? Should those responsible for failed interventions ask for forgiveness, or prepare for lawsuits? Will all those who were personally harmed by failed interventions, or have loved ones who were, be satisfied with forgiving and forgetting or waging legal warfare? Or will they be baying for blood? While covering the increasing scientific evidence that certain interventions have turned out to be quite harmful, we typically ask, “When do the lawsuits start?” At this point, some, particularly those in the Second Amendment-loving United States of America, may well be asking, “When does the shooting start?”