We trusted (the experts), so what we did to you because of (OUR CHOICE to trust the experts) is not our fault
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO who chose PSEUDOSCIENCE of “trust the (so-called) experts”, who brayed and cheered for it—they are GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
The FAUX EXCUSE of “We trusted (the experts), so what we did to you because of (OUR CHOICE to trust the experts) is not our fault” IS a recipe for CONTINUED SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOR & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BY THOSE WHO WILLFULLY CHOOSE THE DARKNESS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE & ACT ON their dark desire to dictate lock downs, masking, and ill-tested/non-effective jabs on people as a predicate for basic freedoms, as demagogues assuming a faux moral mantle to vilify and attack others.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/
Emily’s article (linked above) in The Atlantic entitled
LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY
We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.
IS BEST DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
“we trusted (the experts), so what we did to you because of (our choice to trust the so-called experts) is not our fault” is NOT AN EXCUSE.
INSTEAD, it is the ACTIVE CHOICE to submit to authority INSTEAD OF STANDING WITH HUMANITY FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
I’m not saying you have to hate someone forever for their cowardly choice to throw humanity under the bus of PSEUDOSCIENCE, but to trust them in the future is another matter.
Trust IS EARNED—-NOT GIVEN.
A true mistake can be forgiven, so long as it was YOUR mistake.
BUT, when you take your mistaken choice and make it mine by FORCING upon me actions and restrictions to which I do not consent AND threaten the lives and livlihoods of me and mine because you’re running around half-cocked with no respect for the rights of others, well, that’s something altogether different.
***The rights of a free people do not end where the fears of fraidycats and temptations of tyrants begin***
Getting disease management wrong is one thing, but PRESUMING the COERCIVE DISPENSATION to take whatever your pseudoscience “conclusion” is (especially if you are “in the dark”) and FORCE your pseudoscience UPON THE REST OF HUMANITY because it makes you feel less frightened (or perhaps allows you to savor the dark frisson of being beastly to others while telling yourself you’re a good person for doing it) is NOT something you get amnesty for.
There is a sleight of hand in the thinking here:
That “being in the dark”—willfully not seeing the data & choosing to stay in the darkness of pseudoscience during the pandemic—excuses the mass scale abrogation of rights and reason—IT DOESN’T.
Such ideas are anathema to the persistence of a free society.
It is LITERALLY an assumptive power grab that tries to sell the FALSE idea that “we are entitled to do this to you” by claiming “well, we meant well when we did it, and if we had been right about X, instead of wrong, it would all have been worth it, you know!”
NO, I DON’T KNOW, & NEITHER DOES THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY.
Even had the disease management been right on covid, there was never a right to censor the sharing of information, social and otherwise
CENSORSHIP is “the dark.”
PSEUDOSCIENCE had no right to:
allow only hospital Remdesivir death “standard of care”protocols,
deny patient access to any other potentially lifesaving treatments,
lock humanity down,
mask humanity up,
and force an ill-tested and ill-effective jab on humanity as a predicate for basic freedoms.
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO who chose PSEUDOSCIENCE, who brayed and cheered for it—they are GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY are not to be just tossed away by “just dropping the matter” because the LOVERS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE—the BULLIES & MURDERERS OF HUMANITY—would like it to go away now.
IF you got rolled by the PSEUDOSCIENCE, got jabs you did not want, and suffered as many did, well, so long as you did not advocate forcing this on others, you already have my forgiveness—You were a victim here.
BUT, as soon as you cross the line into advocating coercive PSEUDOSCIENCE policy or willful data suppression, that’s a whole separate issue—A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Being wrong is no crime, nor even is being bullied into acquiescence.
but coercing/forcing others to join you, IS A CRIME—knowingly suppressing data and advocating coercive PSEUDOSCIENCE policy is A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!
I’m sure that many who now find themselves squarely on the wrong side of so many Covid policies that are rapidly coming to light as fraud and failure, would like amnesty, BUT THAT IS NO REASON TO GRANT IT.
IN FACT, CHOOSING PSEUDOSCIENCE & CHOOSING TO COERCE/FORCE HUMANITY TO SUBMIT TO (hospital Remdesivir death “standard of care”protocols, denial of patient access to any other potentially lifesaving treatments, lock downs, masking, and an ill-tested and non-effective jab on people as predicate for basic freedoms) IS A VERY STRONG REASON TO WITHHOLD AMNESTY.
If you wielded the whip hand of the Covidian Crusader, I don’t care if you were “in the dark” BECAUSE YOU CHOSE THE DARKNESS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE & choice is no excuse.
***INSTEAD, YOUR CHOICE TO ESPOUSE & ENFORCE PSEUDOSCIENCE stands as AN INDICTMENT.***
Having CHOSEN PSEUDOSCIENCE out of WILLFUL IGNORANCE (or worse the sort of dark desire to act dictator or demagogue by assuming a faux moral mantle to vilify and attack others) makes you a DANGER TO HUMANITY, and precisely the sort of agent that ought be penalized, not accommodated via amnesty.
Forgiving such INHUMANE & SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOR would be enabling and ennobling anti-social action and technocratic science perversion.
A world that enables and ennobles anti-social action and technocratic science perversion WILL NOT BE TOLERATED BY normal human beings; SO, NO, HUMANITY WILL NOT GIVE AMNESTY TO the PSEUDOSCIENCE ADOPTERS, COLLABORATORS, ENABLERS, & ENFORCERS.
PSEUDOSCIENCE ADOPTERS, COLLABORATORS, ENABLERS, & ENFORCERS will learn that “choices & actions have consequences.”
AMNESTY in the name of “let’s not bicker over who killed whom” IS NOT JUSTICE, BECAUSE:
(1) PSEUDOSCIENCE ADOPTERS, COLLABORATORS, ENABLERS, & ENFORCERS WILLFULLY CHOSE THE DARKNESS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE, AND
(2) ALSO ACTED ON their dark desire to dictate hospital Remdesivir death “standard of care”protocols, denial of patient access to any other potentially lifesaving treatments, lock downs, masking, and ill-tested/non-effective jabs on people as a predicate for basic freedoms as demagogues assuming a faux moral mantle to vilify and attack others.
AMNESTY, IN THE ABOVE CASE, IS perpetuation of the SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOR.