Although CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently admitted the agency’s failures in responding to the COVID pandemic, she and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Dr. Anthony Fauci want to enact even stricter restrictions on the population the next time a novel virus appears. This despite the fact that many of the measures they took, such as lockdowns, forced masking and vaccine mandates, have now been proven to have been ineffective and even counter-productive.
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Author and contributing editor to New York’s City Journal John Tierney wrote in a Thursday Wall Street Journal opinion piece that—incredibly— U.S. and international health authorities want to double down the next time:
Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, recently said there should have been “much, much more stringent restrictions” early in the pandemic. The World Health Organization is revising its official guidance to call for stricter lockdown measures in the next pandemic, and it is even seeking a new treaty that would compel nations to adopt them. The World Economic Forum hails the Covid lockdowns as the model for a “Great Reset” empowering technocrats to dictate policies world-wide. [Emphasis mine.]
That last sentence is perhaps the most terrifying. Anytime you hear the words “great reset,” you should be worried.
A must-read from @JohnTierneyNYC @WSJ who points out how when @CDCDirector @RWalensky admits @CDCgov failed (Fauci agrees) it’s because they didn’t lock down hard ENOUGH! This is no admission of failure. It’s an arrogant power grab & must be stopped. 🤔 https://t.co/taS5kwwPwX
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) August 19, 2022
Many of us were surprised by how unelected officials became the dominant forces in our lives and were allowed to tell us when we could go out, what we had to put in our bodies, and so much more. I never knew who the director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health was before this, but now I’m very aware that the not-a-medical-doctor, Health Director Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., has the sole power to decide whether to enact vaccine and mask mandates on the county’s 10 million people. I only vaguely remember Dr. Anthony Fauci from his work on the AIDS crisis, where he also struggled, but now he’s a household name with his own bobblehead for sale. Though unelected, he holds tremendous power over our freedoms.
Did you spend a lot of time thinking about Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in 2019? Bet not. Might want to pay attention now though, because if Tierney is right and the WHO is “busy revising its official guidance to call for stricter lockdown measures in the next pandemic,” his decisions may impact your life in major, unpleasant, ways.
To me, the scariest part of Tierney’s analysis is that the WHO is “seeking a new treaty that would compel nations to adopt” any new guidance from the international body. To hand power over our sovereign nation and its citizens to an organization that is heavily backed by the Chinese, and which was often spectacularly wrong during this crisis, would be madness.
Restrictions on our freedoms caused by acts of federal, state, and local authorities wreaked untold damage on our economy and our people, but there’s an even more important issue: they didn’t work. Tierney makes the case:
U.S. states with more-restrictive policies fared no better, on average, than states with less-restrictive policies. There’s still no convincing evidence that masks provided any significant benefits. When case rates throughout the pandemic are plotted on a graph, the trajectory in states with mask mandates is virtually identical to the trajectory in states without mandates.
Oops, masks didn’t work. But they like making you wear them, so they’ll just keep pushing the face diapers. Meanwhile, you won’t hear many Ron DeSantis bashers admit this inconvenient fact:
Florida and Sweden were accused of deadly folly for keeping schools and businesses open without masks, but their policies have been vindicated. In Florida the cumulative age-adjusted rate of Covid mortality is below the national average, and the rate of excess mortality is lower than in California, which endured one of the nation’s strictest lockdowns and worst spikes in unemployment.
Yes, it’s true, the Florida governor performed better than Governor “Hair-Gel” Newsom, who spent much of his time talking down to his constituents even though his actual results were terrible. Wonder if DeSantis will ever get an apology from geniuses like this:
Ron #DeathSantis is doing a killer job. pic.twitter.com/HQThIX3hxL
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) July 31, 2020
Tierney holds his most contempt though for Fauci, the CDC, and the WHO:
It was bad enough that Dr. Fauci, the CDC and the WHO ignored the best scientific advice at the start of this pandemic. It’s sociopathic for them to promote a worse catastrophe for future outbreaks. If a drug company behaved this way, ignoring evidence while marketing an ineffective treatment with fatal side effects, its executives would be facing lawsuits, bankruptcy and probably criminal charges. Dr. Fauci and his fellow public officials can’t easily be sued, but they need to be put out of business long before the next pandemic.
I love his penultimate line: “If a drug company behaved this way, ignoring evidence while marketing an ineffective treatment with fatal side effects, its executives would be facing lawsuits, bankruptcy and probably criminal charges.” Mr. Tierney, from your mouth to God’s ears!
Tierney’s article should concern all of us who believe the COVID response was an example of massive government overreach. Imagine if another pandemic hits some day—and chances are that it will—and our health policy is dictated by some technocrat in Geneva. Good luck trying to resist, because you won’t get a vote.
