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Trump was duped into it by Fauci, Birx, and the rest
of the Democrats and Deep State... payback for that
trickery is coming...


A Haunting Anniversary - '15 Days To Slow The Spread'

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/16/a-haunting-anniversary/
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-04-06/billie-eilish-lizzo-elton-john-global-citizen-coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/health/mental-health-crisis-teens.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01506-4
https://restaurant.org/nra/media/downloads/pdfs/advocacy/nat-l-restaurant-assoc-ltr-to-congress-12-7-2020.pdf
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1635090396681236484

As we approach the third anniversary of “15 Days to Slow the Spread”
there remains no accountability and no assurances that it couldn’t
happen again...

Three years ago this week, our vibrant, noisy country went silent.

Or, I should say, it was silenced. Businesses didn’t shutter due to a
sudden economic crash—although one quickly followed—and highways
weren’t empty due to a global fuel shortage. Schools didn’t close
because of a nationwide teacher’s strike; parents and children didn’t
hunker down in separate rooms of the same house over a nasty family
fight.

No, it was a man-made disaster the likes of which can only be compared
to war. On March 16, 2020, President Donald Trump and his Coronavirus
Task Force announced the infamous “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” For
the first time in modern history, the free world, or so it was
considered at the time, resorted to medieval methods to stop the
unstoppable transmission of a novel contagion. Had there been enough
time to farm a massive supply of leeches, the nation’s top government
officials probably would have recommended bloodletting, too.

    “The new recommendations are simple to follow but will have a
resounding impact on public health,” the official White House
announcement read.

    “While the President leads a nationwide response, bringing
together government resources and private-sector ingenuity, every
American can help slow the virus’ spread and keep our most high-risk
populations safe.”

It is a day, and a decision, that will live in infamy. Trump, of
course, is not solely responsible; Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx
shrewdly won the affection and trust of the American people early on,
so any move contrary to their counsel would have created an even
bigger crisis in the White House. Prior to the official declaration,
Republican governors warned shut downs were imminent. Congressional
Republicans with a few exceptions—Rep. Tom Massie (R-Ky.) comes to
mind—grasped the devastating impact on the most vulnerable, especially
children, the poor, and the elderly. The national news media amplified
the untested “mitigation” approach without a shred of skepticism.

Mario Tama/Getty Images

“We’re all in this together,” Hollywood insisted. Health care workers
made up dances in between posting vicious condemnations aimed at any
American who dared to question the scientific basis of indefinite home
confinement. Doctors and nurses, in perhaps the cruelest act of all,
forced patients to die alone as their loved ones stood helplessly
nearby, but all too far away.

Public health “experts” became international celebrities simply by
making up data and forecasting unrealized predictions of doom and
death. Local police officers ran joggers off public beaches.

Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

And it wasn’t just the professional class responsible for the
dystopian hellscape.

Frustrated housewives chased down children who braved hazard-taped
neighborhood playgrounds. When mask madness ensued, many of our
countrymen built a mask militia of sorts, berating nonusers, or even
those wearing their masks “improperly,” in public spaces. Indignant
scolds posted their tirades on social media.

The list goes on and on. And as the pseudoscientific
underpinnings—from the “natural” origins of the virus, to the official
pronouncements on the effectiveness of social distancing,  mask
mandates, and vaccine efficacy—unravels under the weight of evidence,
the collateral damage is gradually coming to light.

American teens remain trapped in an unprecedented mental health
crisis, traumatized by months—and in some states, more than a year—of
suffering social isolation, virus panic, and lost rites of passage
leaving scars for a lifetime. A major study published in January
detailed the global scale of the catastrophe.

    “The effect of limited face-to-face instruction is compounded by
the pandemic’s consequences for children’s out-of-school learning
environment, as well as their mental and physical health,” according
to a meta-analysis that reviewed more than two years of data related
to school shutdowns.

    “Lockdowns have restricted children’s movement and their ability
to play, meet other children and engage in extra-curricular
activities. Children’s wellbeing and family relationships have also
suffered due to economic uncertainties and conflicting demands of
work, care and learning. These negative consequences can be expected
to be most pronounced for children from low socio-economic family
backgrounds, exacerbating pre-existing educational inequalities.”

The full toll on children and families will likely never be known.
Young adults attempt to navigate a new normal as “working remotely”
persists in the white collar world. How can one make new friends or
meet a prospective spouse when confined to a studio apartment in
Lincoln Park working on accounting spreadsheets four days a week? (A
recent college graduate told me how he was so excited during his first
few weeks on the job to go into the office and finally meet his
virtual co-workers that he picked up donuts to share. When he arrived,
no one was there. So he gave the donuts to a homeless man outside the
building.)

Life in most places, on the surface, appears to have returned to
normal. Casual conversations often invoke “before COVID” to describe a
time before March 2020. But in many respects, the “slow the spread”
legacy lives. More than 110,000 restaurants closed permanently; it’s
unclear how many have reopened. The service industry operates in
constant fear history will repeat itself since no politician or
government official has yet to suffer any repercussions for imposing
such destructive—and futile—policies.

This applies to leaders of both parties. For proof, look no further
than the resounding reelection victories of Governors Gretchen Whitmer
(D-Mich.) and Mike DeWine (R-Ohio). (Safely reelected and considered a
2024 presidential prospect, should Biden choose not to run, Whitmer
recently admitted maybe her harsh policies were “a little more than we
needed to do.”)

And consider, too, the level of hero worship that still exists for
Fauci in many quarters.

The issue promises to be a point of contention during the 2024
Republican presidential primaries. No current candidate has clean
hands; in fact, former Vice President Mike Pence, who led the
Coronavirus Task Force, arguably is most culpable. Florida Governor
Ron DeSantis, undoubtedly one of the first leaders to recognize the
futility and damage caused by the lockdowns, nonetheless instituted
lockdown measures, supported mask use, and pushed vaccines.

In some ways, it’s hard to understand how this all happened.

None of it would have been possible but for the immediate and
unskeptical submission of the overwhelming majority of Americans.
Could it happen again? Sadly, the answer is yes.

Never again? We’ll see.