{"id":1728322,"date":"2022-11-07T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728322"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:02:46","slug":"forgive-and-forget-why-the-lefts-plea-for-covid-amnesty-is-falling-on-deaf-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/forgive-and-forget-why-the-lefts-plea-for-covid-amnesty-is-falling-on-deaf-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgive And Forget? Why The Left\u2019s Plea For COVID Amnesty Is Falling On Deaf Ears"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fforgive-and-forget-why-the-lefts-plea-for-covid-amnesty-is-falling-on-deaf-ears%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=1728322&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>Recently, Brown University professor Emily Oster penned an article in The Atlantic that comes straight out of the \u2018Are you joking?\u2019 file. That this request comes on the pages of The Atlantic is especially amusing considering the publication spent years as the mouthpiece for Big Government and Big Pharma by demonizing those who dared to question the wisdom of America\u2019s COVID response and vaccine efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>Past articles on its pages have included: \u2018The Anti-Vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice To America\u2019 (January 2022) \u2018Unvaccinated People Need To Bear The Burden\u2019 (August 2021) and \u2018Some Americans No Longer Believe In The Common Good\u2019\u00a0(August 2021) among others.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, the magazine has suddenly decided to appeal to the better angels of the nature in those it attacked by asking for a \u2018COVID amnesty.\u2019 It is hard not to view this olive branch as a tacit admission that they are coming to realize how catastrophically wrong they were in supporting the now self-evidently destructive COVID protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Says professor Oster:<\/p>\n<p>The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want to gloat. Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn\u2019t accord with the facts. All of this gloating and defensiveness continues to gobble up a lot of social energy and to drive the culture wars, especially on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>First off, no one wants to \u2018gloat\u2019 any more than someone who tried to warn the Titanic was steaming straight for an iceberg felt like gloating when the vessel went under and 1,514 lost their lives. Vicious moralizing is the purview of the hard left these days, no matter how wrong they are proven to be. As for the rest of the article? Why am I reminded of the old Monty Python And The Holy Grail bit: \u201cPlease! Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let\u2019s not bicker and argue about who killed who.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take a CDC official, or even a Brown economics professor, to understand the implications behind basic statistics and thus realize who is in danger and who is not from this or that pathogen.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019ve thought about your desire for an amnesty. I think what you really mean is forgiveness. Well, here is my answer:<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for throwing a generation of kids\u2019 learning back decades courtesy of your inane school lockdown policies? Policies that appear to be less about \u201cthe science\u201d and more about placating radical, entitled teachers\u2019 unions using COVID as a pretext for paid vacations?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for my high schooler being relegated to a screen isolated in his bedroom as a substitute for classroom instruction and interaction?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for the last year-and-a-half of college my daughter will never get back \u2014 even though we\u2019re still required to pay full tuition?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for the inconsistent, arbitrary, utterly nonsensical COVID restrictions that branded biker rallies as \u2018superspreader events\u2019 and prevented one from walking alone on the seashore \u2014 while giving BLM and Antifa \u2018rallies\u2019 a free pass?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for the eight-month dirge of violence that resulted in $2 billion in property damage, the arson, looting, vandalism in dozens of cities while over 1,000 police were assaulted and over two dozen innocents were murdered?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for forcing my father-in-law to die alone in a hospital bed, denied the comfort of having his family around him?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for my 90 year-old mother\u2019s COVID funeral restrictions, preventing a proper celebration of her life?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for your blind obedience to the State, sacrificing all journalistic integrity in favor of your role as a post-modern incarnation of Pravda?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness from those you once labeled as \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cxenophobic\u201d because they weren\u2019t buying the CCP-proffered story that COVID emerged from a \u201cwet market\u201d and not the Wuhan Institute of Virology right down the road?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for those on social media who were labeled \u201cscience deniers\u201d even \u201caccomplices to murder\u201d and promptly de-platformed, defamed, demonetized for speaking what we now know is the truth?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for your brazen, chilling, and continued calls for censorship?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for those hundreds of thousands who were forced to shut down their small businesses, losing their entire livelihoods while large retailers like Walmart, Home Depot and even liquor stores remained open?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for derailing a booming economy and sending unemployment surging from 3.5% to almost 15% in two months?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for forcing a nascent vaccine on mass populations \u2014 many of whom we knew faced little statistical risk from catching COVID? Including children as young as six-months-old? A vaccine that we now know neither prevents infection or spreads the virus?<\/p>\n<p>You ask forgiveness for my four trips to the hospital for a sudden series of heart issues \u2014 from cardiomyopathy to afib and rapid heartbeat \u2014 that were non-existent before my second shot?<\/p>\n<p>You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Brown University professor Emily Oster penned an article in The Atlantic that comes straight out of the \u2018Are you joking?\u2019 file. 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