The nerve:
Forgive each other?
That statement implies that all parties involved did something wrong. That could not be further from the truth.
"These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know."
The FUCK we didn't know. YOU didn't know. I knew. I was looked at sideways and accosted by employees at stores I had been a customer of for decades for not wearing a mask because I knew physics. I knew fluid dynamics and that viruses were way smaller than the pores of the masks. I knew that unless properly fitted, even the "good" n95 ones weren't worth a damn. I knew that people constantly touching them was a recipe for disaster.
Know what else I knew? That the constant "sanitizing" would (and still could) lead to super bugs and destruction of the natural bio-fauna that all of us have on our bodies.
I knew better and I did nothing wrong. I owe not a damn body an apology.
"But in spring and summer 2020, we had only glimmers of information."
No, By the summer of 2020 I had figured out that this was an illness that got people who had underlying conditions (and had covered it up with various medications). I figured out that if you were healthy, not vit D deficient and took a few supplements, you were unlikely to have much more than a cough and a runny nose. Perhaps a loss of taste and smell when your turn came. I knew that the lockdown was an economic time bomb. As a matter of fact I pointed that out in April. I knew the whole giving people money to stay home was a VERY bad idea. Those chickens have come home to roost and the rooster is making a racket.
There was plenty of information out there for people who were paying attention, didn't rabidly hate Trump and were actually interested in facts and data.
"Obviously some people intended to mislead and made wildly irresponsible claims. Remember when the public-health community had to spend a lot of time and resources urging Americans not to inject themselves with bleach? That was bad. Misinformation was, and remains, a huge problem. But most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society."
The only wildly irresponsible claims made were by Fauci, Birx and just about every liberal talking head. Birx has finally admitted that she knew at the time of release that the mRNA vaccines would not stop transmission and yet this claim, which was the basis for firing people was kept in play until just recently when the evidence could no longer be ignored. Secondly Trump never told anyone to inject themselves with bleach. He said it would be great if there was a disinfectant for the body. Do you know what chemotherapy is? You know what every medication you take is? A disinfectant you twit.
And the claim about "bringing light into the body"? Yeah, I posted on that and how a company was actually working on using UV radiation therapy INSIDE the body.
But the partisan murderers, that's what they are, who hated Trump to the nth degree took "disinfectant" to mean "bleach" so that they could get at him
And no, these people were not and are not working for the "good of society". They are killers and totalitarians and I have no love for them. They should be shot or hanged. Shot AND hanged.
"In some instances, the right people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding of the available information."
What is this nonsense? "Right for the wrong reason"? Either you're right or your wrong. Period. Ain't no "reason" about it.
"The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want to gloat."
We're not gloating. We are mad as hell and want the vicious people who imposed themselves upon us to be held to personal account.
"But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward."
This wasn't a mistake. These people were and are purposely malicious. As far as I'm concerned they are no better than the thug who pushes a person in front of a moving train: Not worth the dirt under their shoes. The way you prevent this history from repeating is to make examples out of each and every one of them.
Gallows.
Firing squads.
Total bankruptcy.
The thug who pushes the innocent person in front of the train doesn't get to say "sorry my bad" and get to move on. They get put on trial and put in jail. These criminals in various government agencies and private companies deserve no less.
No Amnesty.