{"id":1722620,"date":"2022-11-03T07:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722620"},"modified":"2022-11-03T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:48:24","slug":"there-can-be-no-amnesty-on-lockdowns-without-a-reckoning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-can-be-no-amnesty-on-lockdowns-without-a-reckoning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"There Can Be No \u2018Amnesty\u2019 On Lockdowns Without A Reckoning"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthere-can-be-no-amnesty-on-lockdowns-without-a-reckoning-2%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=1722620&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>Brown University economics professor Emily Oster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/10\/covid-response-forgiveness\/671879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appeared <\/a>this week in The Atlantic to petition for a \u201cpandemic amnesty.\u201d As the evidence gets harder to bury that the ruling class\u2019s responses to Covid were, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/19\/will-the-costs-of-a-great-depression-outweigh-the-risks-of-coronavirus\/\">some of us<\/a> predicted in March 2020, worse than the disease, Oster wants to deflect rising public acrimony over these devastating leadership failures. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And, similarly, getting something wrong wasn\u2019t a moral failing. Treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from moving forward,\u201d she writes. \u201cWe have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She concludes her article, \u201cLet\u2019s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet it\u2019s simply not true there wasn\u2019t enough information for leaders to make prudent decisions back in January to April 2020. Indeed, they were certain enough about their patently cruel policies that included leaving the elderly alone to die, requiring women to give birth utterly alone except for masked strangers, and forbidding families from holding funerals.<\/p>\n<p>Oster is not actually advocating for amnesty, but for a complete lack of responsibility-taking and accountability. That will make our nation\u2019s future worse, less able to address the problems lockdowns created. There is no such thing as \u201cmoving forward\u201d from mass civil rights abuses until their root causes have been discerned and steps taken to provide recompense and prevent repeat abuse in the future. <\/p>\n<p> Yes, the Data Was Available to Reject Lockdowns <\/p>\n<p>Oster has built a personal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parentdata.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brand <\/a>on \u201cdata-based parenting.\u201d She describes herself in her Twitter profile as \u201cunapologetically data-driven.\u201d But Oster is over her skis, both professionally and as a citizen, to make such a poor argument masquerading as a moderate position in The Atlantic. Especially since her essay is likely the <a href=\"https:\/\/sarahreynolds.substack.com\/p\/everyone-is-talking-about-emily-oster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beginning of a pivot<\/a> among the ruling class to avoid accountability for using Covid to destroy our peace, prosperity, and ancient rights, it deserves the public beating it has received.<\/p>\n<p>We the people were never told by the Covid totalitarians that their predictions were \u201cuncertain\u201d and \u201ccomplicated.\u201d They were so certain of their false claims that they sent police to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/04\/11\/kentucky-to-record-license-plates-at-church-services-quarantine-car-occupants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record the license plates of people<\/a> who attended church on Easter, a constitutional and human right. They shut down schools while keeping abortion facilities and marijuana dispensaries open. They were so sure of their moral righteousness that they seemingly gleefully threatened people\u2019s ability to feed their kids if they didn\u2019t take experimental injections for a disease that may have posed little risk to them. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/10\/how-vaccine-mandates-caused-dangerous-hospital-care-shortages-in-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vaccine mandates led to<\/a> dangerous employee shortages at hospitals, police departments, and now in the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p><em>None <\/em>of this deliberately inflicted mass suffering was necessary, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/no-amnesty-for-lockdowners_4834331.html\">was all known early on<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t, as Oster claims, a matter of \u201cdeep uncertainty.\u201d Among others,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letting people off the hook isn&#8217;t amnesty. 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