{"id":1650519,"date":"2022-09-21T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1650519"},"modified":"2022-09-21T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:51:35","slug":"biden-says-we-can-do-what-weve-been-doing-ignore-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-we-can-do-what-weve-been-doing-ignore-the-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says We Can Do What We\u2019ve Been Doing: Ignore The Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-we-can-do-what-weve-been-doing-ignore-the-science%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1650519&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The pandemic is over. So sayeth none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1571657276695388162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a> while talking to \u201c60 Minutes\u201d Host Scott Pelley at the Detroit Auto Show, adding, \u201cNo one is wearing masks, everyone seems to be in pretty good shape.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This declaration came on the heels of a recent attempt by the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/10\/covid-booster-shots-pandemic-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to pretend<\/a> that the \u201cnew normal\u201d is just about annual covid jabs and more spending for pandemic preparedness. No word yet on if Twitter or Facebook are going to cancel Biden or WaPo for spreading misinformation, particularly Ultra MAGA Plus level misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost as if the new normal we were threatened with isn\u2019t going to happen and instead, all those who hectored and lectured us for the past two years are pretending that they never really argued for the new normal at all.<\/p>\n<p>The spread of the old normal variant isn\u2019t stopping with the president, either. Leana Wen, not known for being muted in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/leana-wen-created-a-mob-of-covid-karens-and-now-theyre-coming-for-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her love of excessive mitigation attempts<\/a>, announced that her kids <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/08\/23\/my-kids-wont-wear-masks-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wouldn\u2019t be wearing masks<\/a> at school, even though she knows they\u2019ll probably end up catching covid. Eric Feigl-Ding, Twitter scholar and chief covid neurotic, disagrees with both Wen and the president, at least when it comes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEricDing\/status\/1571950749277454337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to masks<\/a>. Covid may now be <a href=\"https:\/\/vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com\/p\/a-good-doctor-and-researcher-makes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less lethal than the flu<\/a>, but Feigl-Ding isn\u2019t going to let that stop him from not living his life. Kudos to him for his consistency, if only because he knows he\u2019ll have to slither back into obscurity once people find a new form of panic porn.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>There Are No Takebacks on the Covid Response<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Others besides Biden, Wen, and WaPo, though, are starting to come around to arguments that banned and censored thought criminals have been making for the past two years. The New York Times now admits that remote learning had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/05\/briefing\/school-closures-covid-learning-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleterious effects<\/a> on kids. The Gray Lady also published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/30\/opinion\/why-anthony-faucis-covid-legacy-is-a-failure.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a guest essay<\/a> that was critical of the Science himself, Saint Anthony Fauci. Nature published a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00620-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing for a return<\/a> to the old normal. The Atlantic, to its credit, is encouraging people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2022\/05\/covid-opinions-school-closures\/629736\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admit they were wrong<\/a> about our collective response to covid.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s nice to finally see people get serious about the fact that we were never going to defeat a virus, particularly one that was turned up to 11 in a lab, we can\u2019t allow them to get away with it. There can be no \u201coopsies, never mind, I was wrong\u201d given how much they upended our lives in their futile quest. <\/p>\n<p>In a just world, they\u2019d all be tarred and feathered before being banished to a remote outpost with no internet access. In our world, they won\u2019t even face censure on social media for now advocating for the same policies and ideas that got countless others in trouble, merely for being correct earlier.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Virus Covid Truly Unleashed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Granted, we\u2019re still quite a way from defeating the truly devastating virus covid unleashed \u2014 the tyranny of those neurotics. Some kids are still being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/2022\/8\/4\/23291946\/mask-mandates-fall-2022-school-year\">forced to mask<\/a>, a tool we once recognized <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/299003\/a-quick-history-of-why-asians-wear-surgical-masks-in-public\/\">didn\u2019t do much<\/a>, unless we count protecting our <em>qi,<\/em> until more study was done and it was determined that they <a href=\"https:\/\/vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com\/p\/the-bangladesh-mask-trial-is-re-analyzed\">don\u2019t do much<\/a>.\u00a0 California wants to force kids to get the jab, a shot which doesn\u2019t stop the spread and which is for a virus they were never at risk from, but has to wait for <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/updates\/vaccine-mandate-for-schools-delayed-until-at-least-july-2023#:~:text=California%20students%20will%20not%20be,approves%20the%20vaccines%20for%20children.\">full FDA approval<\/a>. The Department of Defense is clinging to its vaccine mandate for service members. There are myriad requirements on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/politics-society\/government-elections\/info-2020\/coronavirus-state-restrictions.html\">the state level<\/a>, none of which will accomplish anything except inconveniencing people.<\/p>\n<p>There are also still individual businesses requiring masks, such as my middle daughter\u2019s allergist. (Their WiFi password: breatheeasy.) Veterinarians seem particularly resistant to doing away with mask mandates, though dog moms are a different breed. Hospitals and doctor\u2019s offices make more sense in sticking with masks, if you squint hard and ignore how lax compliance is amongst the staff, the people who are exposed to germs all day every day.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>It\u2019s Time to Ignore the Science\u2122<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s looking like the new normal is the same as the old normal, only with a lot more people who deserve to be ignored in perpetuity, if not, as mentioned, tarred, feathered, and launched to a remote outpost with no internet access. For as C.S. Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/526469-of-all-tyrannies-a-tyranny-sincerely-exercised-for-the-good\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But just to be safe, to ensure that those busybodies never get another chance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_g_niOqohcY\">LARPing Loki<\/a>, particularly as they were more concerned with tyranny than our collective good, we shouldn\u2019t discount the healing power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MiZaAEGblGA\">the catapult<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Richard Cromwell is a writer and senior contributor at The Federalist. He lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife, three daughters, and two crazy dogs. Co-host of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeandcochon.com\/%E2%80%9C\">Coffee &#038; Cochon<\/a>, you can find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jrichardcromwell%E2%80%9C\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\nand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcromwell4\">Twitter<\/a>, though you should probably avoid using social media.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic is over. So sayeth none other than President Joe Biden while talking to \u201c60 Minutes\u201d Host Scott Pelley at the Detroit Auto Show, adding, \u201cNo one is wearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":1650521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}