{"id":87597,"date":"2024-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87597"},"modified":"2024-05-24T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:50:19","slug":"perspective-needed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87597","title":{"rendered":"Perspective Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former representative Ryan Winkler has led us down a twisty, turny path with some surprises over his legislative and extra-legislative careers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s  swerved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36930\">the ridiculous<\/a> to the, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86470\">occasionally admirable<\/a>, and back, and forth and back and forth, and backandforth&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, well&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pandemic denial is the same as Holocaust denial. They\u2019re both social diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IT98H4dOex\">https:\/\/t.co\/IT98H4dOex<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler\/status\/1793792963845247398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Denying the industralized murder of 11 million people, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>versus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legitimate questions and doubts about everything government told us about Covid from the very beginning &#8211; remembering that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/mar\/5\/covid-19-conspiracy-theories-turned-out-to-be-true\/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiVoryv0KaGAxXe5ckDHbxUCB4QFnoECBIQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw0mYHKKpoXAezYLG_kr2aK6\">many of the &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; of 2020\/2021 turned out to be tru<\/a>e: natural immunity works, and for longer than the vaccines; fomite spread didn&#8217;t happen; lockdowns were useless at best; the Great Barrington Declaration was right (the vaccines should have been targeted at the elderly and vulnerable),  researchers lied even about the intended effects of vaccines or that &#8220;Zero Covid&#8221; was ever possible, masks made little to no difference, and there&#8217;s a pretty significant chance the virus <em>did <\/em>start as a result of Frankenvirus research in China.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holocaust denial is a social pathology.  Pandemic &#8220;denial&#8221;, at four years remove, is neither pathological nor especially denying any fact.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone needs to take a deep breath.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former representative Ryan Winkler has led us down a twisty, turny path with some surprises over his legislative and extra-legislative careers. He&#8217;s swerved from the ridiculous to the, well, occasionally admirable, and back, and forth and back and forth, and backandforth&#8230; And, well&#8230;: Denying the industralized murder of 11 million people, versus Legitimate questions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,20,426],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-87597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87598,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87597\/revisions\/87598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}