No
By Mitch Berg
Professor Galloway: I hear what you’re saying.
I do.
And on behalf of all the small businesses strangled by your mistake, all the parents who watched their kids slowly go crazy and stupid, and felt their personal, social and business relationships fraying and breaking?
I reject it.
Forgiveness without atonement is meaningless.
Try again.
October 30th, 2023 at 6:08 am
Sure, we can do that, but keep in mind that grace and forgiveness does NOT apply to sharing mean tweets or micro-aggressions.
October 30th, 2023 at 7:16 am
“I wanted a harsher lockdown policy BECAUSE I WAS WILLING TO BE DUPED. In retrospect: I was wrong BECAUSE I REPEATEDLY REJECTED THE TRUTH AND EAGERALY EMBRACED THE LIES… But here’s the bottom line: We were doing our best TO FORCE YOU TO LIVE THE LIE, TOO. Let’s give a little grace and forgiveness INSTEAD OF THE PUNISHMENT WE DESERVE.”
Fixed it for you, Bill.
The problem isn’t that people of good will made an honest mistake. The problem is that smug people assumed they were naturally smarter than the deplorable deniers who therefore deserved to be ridiculed on line, shunned from public spaces, and fired from their jobs.
It wasn’t from lack of alternative information – the infection/death rate on the Diamond Princess or at George Floyd’s funeral or the policies of The Great Barrington Declaration were widely known – it was intentional rejection of any information which did not fit The Narrative. That’s where the idea of censoring “misinformation” came from – not that the information was false, but that it was inconvenient and thus must be suppressed.
Bill Maher was the kind of person who would have happily pushed people into cattle cars, so long as they were the “wrong” people, the ones who “deserved” it.
There’s no “moving on” from that.
October 30th, 2023 at 7:20 am
No Democommie ever atones for anything. Why should this be any different?
October 30th, 2023 at 8:02 am
Its easy, and fun to excoriate at leftist slags but really, who’s more to blame; the scumbags that supported the Scamdemic or the nitwits that obeyed?
Imo, that test of worldwide Gulag was really a test of character. If, after selective lockdowns and closings, “ventilators!! Ventilators!! Ventilators!!” that sat unused in warehouses, a US Navy hospital ship brought to NYC at great expense to save people who never showed up, rounding up old people and marching them off to die in nursing homes, dancing Tic Toc nurses, bullshit lies, you put on a maskie for any reason, you failed.
If you let them stick you with a clot shot for any reason, your failure will haunt you for the rest of your shortened life.
Leftist twats like that one had zero effect on my life.
October 30th, 2023 at 8:09 am
One could draw a line between the nitwits that followed the science™️ and the one’s who are blindly supporting the rapidly escalating catastrophe in the Middle East, but I shall restrain from doing so.
Nits gonna wit.
October 30th, 2023 at 9:13 am
The covid restrictions were produced by the “expert” class of educated people and forced on others (like the Canadian truckers). This was because it empowered the “expert” class. There has never been any other reason.
In Minnesota Walz was re-elected after he locked down the state using the trick of redeclaring an emergency every 30 days. Hawaii had a lockdown harder than Minnesota’s, and done in the same way (emergency orders from the governor). The assistant governor then, an actual medical doctor named Joshua Green, criticized the governor for not locking down hard enough.
In 2022 Joshua Green was elected the new governor of Hawaii with 63% of the vote.
October 30th, 2023 at 9:23 am
Imo, that test of worldwide Gulag was really a test of character
I and my family are unvaxxed and don’t wear masks (unless it was unavoidable, like hospitals), but I think you’re unduly harsh towards the nitwits that obeyed.
Something happened over the last three years that was but little reported because journo-swine are ignorant mid-wits who like all Democommies can’t see the consequences of their actions. Mitch wrote about it the other day, but the effects were far more widespread and penetrating than he described.
The last three years have increased the degradation of our formerly high trust societies. The importation of third-world peoples from low-trust countries is part of it. The creation of a dual justice system which excuses untrustworthy people while penalizing those who are is another. This post presents an example of the third aspect: the suicide of the expert (academic) class.
A high trust society respects experts. The expert class allows us to avoid thinking about, heck, we can ignore a whole bunch of things in our daily lives because we trust that there’s an expert that stands behind them. The people who fix your car are experts so you don’t have to be. The same with HVAC guys. Or the guy who can take down a big oak next to your house.
Or your doctor… ahem. Nobody, no group has sabotaged the veneration of the expert class as much as the medical profession. I mean, academics have been working on this for years in their own little ways, but really, it was the medical profession that revealed just how deep the rot had gotten (I believe in Fauci, quote, unquote, from an acquaintance’s doctor when asked about the vax). And for those that were perceptive enough to understand what was happening, the idea that one can claim expertise in *anything* without any questions is a time now past. Another consequence of a lower-than-high trust society.
So, the nitwits who obeyed were simply choosing “expertise” because it always worked in the past. Moreover, so many people are motivated more by rhetoric than facts (this has been a source of constant irritation to those of us who aren’t); trying to present my mask-wearing neighbor with facts is a pointless exercise. These people are unequipped to discern facts from rhetoric and as good little citizens choose expertise because up until only a few years ago, that was all you needed to do.
The test of character, however, starts now…
October 30th, 2023 at 10:04 am
The thought that comes to mind for me is that we forgive as people repent and make changes that will prevent things from happening again. For my part, that means that we need to have an understanding that submicron particles tend to form aerosols, that we should not assume that naturally obtained immunity is inferior to that from vaccines, and that standard hospitals are in general poor places to handle wildly infectious diseases. We also need to have the understanding that super-microbes tend to migrate away from the “sweet spot” of lethality, not towards it.
Regarding all of these, I think we need a network of hospitals that can be dedicated to caring for the victims of infectious disease. Put them in rural areas that might not otherwise have a hospital, where the staff can also be quarantined, and where one can construct them more or less like a clean room–laminar flow, filtration, the whole 9 yards to reduce aerosol transmission and the like.
October 30th, 2023 at 10:16 am
Mitch said “Try again”
You can be sure they will try again.
October 30th, 2023 at 10:34 am
Tim Walz remains Governor of Minnesota. Scott Jensen, the apostate doctor, purveyor of disinformation, is not. Someone is after his medical license. That’s the reality. A fascist dictator gets reelected and the truth is buried.
October 30th, 2023 at 11:23 am
“So, the nitwits who obeyed were simply choosing “expertise” because it always worked in the past.”
Point taken, jdm. And I freely admit that for years I was blinded by “experts”, but more because they were saying things I likes rather than believed. I think my epiphany began with GWB. Although I knew his daddy was a lying asshole who did nothing unless it helped the status quo, I voted for Jr; twice. When he fucked us, just like his daddy did I started casting a jaundiced eye towards everything I had held true.
Then the “experts” said the Earth was going to die by 2020, and so I was ready for the medical “experts” who said the Chinese virus was gonna kill us all unless we did as we were told.
And it’s just getting worse…remember “pics or it didn’t happen”? Well with the advent and astonishingly rapid advance of AI, you can’t believe anything unless you see it with your own, naked eye…and even then don’t jump to conclusions.
I shit canned cable about 4 years ago, and don’t even tune into Fox news when I’m in a hotel room. I get my news from a wide conglomeration of sources, and triangulate the truth as best I can. I instinctively trust people who are being attacked by the Uniparty and/or the leftist media mob. But even there, I am cautious. I think Tucker Carlson is telling the truth most of the time, but we’ll see how hard the mob comes at him.
Drumpf becomes more trustworthy every day, especially since the Jewish mafia has started in on him.
October 30th, 2023 at 12:39 pm
^ Pretty much ditto for me
October 30th, 2023 at 12:49 pm
Forgiveness is one thing. Letting people retain the power to make similar bad decisions in the future is quite another.
October 30th, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Letting people retain the power to make similar bad decisions in the future is quite another.
Well that’s just it, Steve. The voting majority in leftist shitholes like Minnesota think those decisions are the right ones. The degenerates nominally in control doubled and tripled down on the stupid because their voters love it.
That’s not gonna change, so the only thing a smart fella can do it de-camp with his family, and find smarter people to live with.
October 30th, 2023 at 3:27 pm
@jdm
When we were touring some of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan earlier this year, someone asked about how the Spaniards were able to overcome the Mayan civilization. The guide replied that the Mayan elites had convinced the public that they were in touch with the gods and thus the weather. After 7 years of drought, the people realized that they didn’t need the elites.
The guide then pointed out that the Mayan civilization, whose ruins we were touring, ended 300 years before the Spaniards arrived.
I suppose you could say it was due to a lack of trust.