{"id":89373,"date":"2025-03-10T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89373"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:01:49","slug":"oceania-has-always-been-at-war-with-eurasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89373","title":{"rendered":"Oceania Has Always Been At War With Eurasia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Boston Glob, <\/em>which led the way in demanding absolute mindless compliance during the Covid regime, is – five years later – asking the tough questions<\/em>, doncha know<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The costs of the shutdowns were enormous: trillions of dollars in deficit spending to stave off economic ruin; massive learning loss, concentrated among the least advantaged children; the special pain of leaving loved ones to die alone in dreary nursing homes and emergency rooms; a further cleaving of our already divided society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And despite all the sacrifice, the United States still had a much higher death rate<\/a> than other wealthy nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a critical moment, American science abandoned its most fundamental tenets. It forsook inquiry, it muzzled debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And American democracy did no better. Reasonable skepticism was cast as tinfoil-hat conspiracy mongering. Twitter and Facebook and YouTube were purged of heresy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Macedo and Lee, the story is clear: The pandemic was a monumental test of the American system \u2014 and the system failed<\/p>\n

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You could say “better late than never”.\u00a0\u00a0 That may be true.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as one of the unwashed, unfavored masses who still managed to figure the eventual truth out bright and early<\/a>, and paid a price for it, I’m still not ready to make nice. There’s gotta be a “truth and reconciliation” commission of some sort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if it’s only here.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Boston Glob, which led the way in demanding absolute mindless compliance during the Covid regime, is – five years later – asking the tough questions, doncha know: You could say “better late than never”.\u00a0\u00a0 That may be true.\u00a0\u00a0 But as one of the unwashed, unfavored masses who still managed to figure the eventual truth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89374,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89373\/revisions\/89374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}