A major publication has called for a “pandemic amnesty”, urging people to “forgive one another for what we did and said” during Covid.
Emily Oster, an author and economist at Brown University, suggested in a column for The Atlantic on Monday that it was time to “move forward” and heal the social divisions caused by lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates and other public health measures over the past two years.
As evidence continues to mount that much of the pandemic response caused more harm than good — views which were and still are routinely censored on social media and labeled disinformation — Oster suggested “most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society”.
They can feel the walls closing in on them.
This new article is asking for “Pandemic Amnesty”… for us to forgive and forget everything they did.
What they did to our families.
What they did to our children.
What they did to small businesses.
How they used COVID to steal the 2020 Presidential election and the catastrophic consequences we are living with as a result.
The crimes against humanity that are about to be fully exposed.
Excerpts from The Atlantic article:
Given the amount of uncertainty, almost every position was taken on every topic. And on every topic, someone was eventually proved right, and someone else was proved wrong. In some instances, the right people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding of the available information.
…These discussions are heated, unpleasant and, ultimately, unproductive. In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And, similarly, getting something wrong wasn’t 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.
We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge. Los Angeles County closed its beaches in summer 2020. Ex post facto, this makes no more sense than my family’s masked hiking trips. But we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go…
The idea didn’t go over too well…
This guy’s response is perfect.
They locked you in your homes and then banned you from growing your own food.
No to pandemic amnesty. Yes to Nuremberg 2.0.
How about no.
Request denied.
Absolutely not.
