It’s a bit like New Age “channeling”, where everyone is the reincarnation of an Egyptian priestess or Salem witch. If social media were to be believed, everyone’s ancestors in Europe in the 1930s were resisters who sheltered Jews from the Nazis. It’s a wonder the Gestapo ever found anyone to round up.
But that’s the way of it: victory has many friends, failure is an orphan. While Hitler’s goons were blitzkrieging Europe, they had plenty of collaborators; once they were on the run, suddenly everyone was a resister. (It’s often conveniently forgotten, too, that one of the most-quoted anti-Nazis, Martin Niemoller, was initially an enthusiastic Nazi supporter — until they famously came for him.)
We’re seeing the same frantic re-writing of history as the Covid Reich collapses. Suddenly, everyone wants to forget how they advocated for the unvaccinated to be driven out of society. Jacinda Ardern has the front to pontificate, “we all just need to respect people’s individual decisions”. Yes, the same Jacinda Ardern who happily agreed that she was creating a two-tier society for the unvaccinated.
When they’re not turning on a dime and expecting no one to notice, they’re busily blaming everyone else for what they did.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the most incredible comment early this month during a press briefing, after a US government report found American primary school students’ test scores had dropped dramatically since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, wiping out, in effect, more than 20 years of steady improvement in reading and maths.
This was just one of the many negative outcomes we at The BFD were reporting that were predicted to happen, from the earliest days of lockdowns. School closures were demanded and cheered on by left-wing teachers’ unions. It’s a policy still being floated by New Zealand’s Chris Hipkins.
Jean-Pierre blamed Republicans for keeping schools closed too long – a policy followed around the world, including Australia, where schools remained shut for at least a year in some states.
Opening schools, she said, “was the work of Democrats, despite Republicans”, as if determined to win the prize for the greatest furphy in the history of the briefing room.
Don’t expect “fact-checkers” to call her out on that bare-faced lie.
As a quick internet search shows, some Republicans, sane people, and Donald Trump in particular, who as president had no power over schools, were castigated by Democrats and so-called public health experts as akin to murderers for arguing as early as July 2020 that all schools should open immediately.
Jean-Pierre’s comment came a week after Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul conceded shutting schools, something her Democrat predecessor Andrew Cuomo did repeatedly throughout 2020 and last year, was a disaster.
Flappy-armed frightbat Siouxsie Wiles has gone from demanding to keep Level 4 rules (which included staying home from school) in place, to pontificating that “it’s important that schools stay open as much as possible during the pandemic… students from disadvantaged homes can fall behind when schools are closed and struggle to catch up again, harming their long term prospects.”
Expect to see a lot of these obvious lies in the near future, as the proponents of lockdowns u-turn faster than a Hamilton man hearing the pregnancy test results.
The proponents of shutting everything down, China-style, have gone very quiet, or tried to blame their opponents for the policies they championed with vehemence for almost two years.
Even Anthony Fauci, who perhaps had more influence in pushing authoritarian health policies than any other individual, is washing his hands of them. “I think we need to make sure that your listeners understand I didn’t shut down anything,” he told Fox News last month.
Does this clown think none of us know how to use the internet?
“When it became clear that we had community spread in the country, with a few cases of community spread … I recommended to the president that we shut the country down,” Fauci said in October 2020.
This all matters, because it’s getting to the point that not even the Podia of Truth will be able to deny that lockdowns were the most destructive government policies since WWII. They not only didn’t work, but they’ve also made things horribly worse for years to come.
Even renowned US public health expert Leana Wen, one of the doyens of authoritarian health restrictions in the US, who demanded the unvaccinated be forced to stay in their homes, has done an about-face.
“Masking has harmed our son’s language development,” she said a recent column in The Washington Post, foreshadowing the death of mask mandates even as Covid cases soar in the northern winter.
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Like Nazi collaborators, they can’t be allowed to get away with pretending they never did it.