{"id":1721833,"date":"2022-11-02T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721833"},"modified":"2022-11-02T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:49:37","slug":"public-health-elites-who-pushed-anti-science-policies-deserve-accountability-not-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/public-health-elites-who-pushed-anti-science-policies-deserve-accountability-not-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Elites Who Pushed Anti-Science Policies Deserve Accountability, Not \u2018Amnesty\u2019"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fpublic-health-elites-who-pushed-anti-science-policies-deserve-accountability-not-amnesty%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=1721833&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--><p>The failures of Covid health policies are legion. Absent, curiously, are any serious acknowledgments of the harms caused by these policies from the people who promoted them throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Professor Emily Oster of Brown University, admitted in The Atlantic that interventions like social distancing and outdoor masking \u201cwere totally misguided.\u201d She decried the \u201cwildly irresponsible claims\u201d of many in positions of power and admits that school closures have led to \u201chistoric declines\u201d in student test scores.<\/p>\n<p>Oster acknowledges the obvious: these policies had serious unintended consequences. Oncologist reports note that nearly 50 percent of cancers went undiagnosed during the federal lockdowns because people were too scared to seek treatment. One study estimated that we may have missed over <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3601399\">200,000 cases of domestic abuse during the spring of 2020<\/a>. Sharp-eyed teachers and administrators are usually the first ones to uncover these sad incidents, and our kids weren\u2019t in school. Well into 2022, I was asking aloud: \u201cHow many bruises on a mom\u2019s face were hidden because schools required masks for drop-offs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone weigh the true costs of shutting down the country and closing schools? What should be our position towards policy-makers who forced these ill-founded interventions on the public? What attitude should we strike with key influencers who <em>knew<\/em> of these harms but did little to call for changes?<\/p>\n<p>Oster seems to recognize that the other shoe is dropping and which is why she launches a pre-emptive request for forgiveness:<\/p>\n<p>We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The professor was not an uninterested bystander. Oster and her team had collected invaluable data on Covid cases in school settings for nearly a year starting in August 2020. The data also mapped differing interventions by state, county, and district <a href=\"https:\/\/statsiq.co1.qualtrics.com\/public-dashboard\/v0\/dashboard\/5f78e5d4de521a001036f78e#\/dashboard\/5f78e5d4de521a001036f78e?pageId=Page_c0595a5e-9e70-4df2-ab0c-14860e84d36a\">\u2013 allowing a real-time lab of comparisons<\/a>. Our team charted her data and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/boriquagato.substack.com\/p\/your-childs-mask-protects-no-one\/comments?s=w\">students in masked schools had a 21 percent higher case rate<\/a> than students in schools with no masks. Oster <a href=\"denied:tps:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.05.19.21257467v1.full\">published a study<\/a> coming to similar conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Then, she dropped out of the discussion and refused to push her study for peer review and publication.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous influential academics like Emily, under pressure from peers and establishment leaders, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11024-022-09479-4?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">caved, stayed silent, and mothballed their data altogether<\/a>. It\u2019s difficult to separate intimidation from self-censorship \u2013 but a blanket amnesty seems premature.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no apology will be forthcoming from Dr. Anthony Fauci. During numerous media interviews in the last several months, he has refused to acknowledge any mistakes. Apparently, he fears that the slightest <em>mea culpa <\/em>would be taken \u201cout of context.\u201d Fauci\u2019s only tool was fear and he\u2019s not going to give up his tactic.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Scott Atlas, a one-time advisor to President Trump\u2019s Covid-19 taskforce, recounts how he confronted Fauci and asked: \u201cSo you think people aren\u2019t frightened enough?\u201d Fauci reportedly replied: \u201cYes, they need to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear-mongering virus prophets that prided themselves on public health damaged public trust more than anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":1721836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721833","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\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}