Never Again

Dr. Marty Makary’s article in the New York Post on February 27th, 2023 confirms what most of us knew for a while now. The Regime in many cases knowingly forced anti-Covid measures and practices on the public based on faulty information, then suppressed and victimized dissent. The article is a somber vindication of what some individuals had expressed at the cost of their own liberty and livelihood, and if we are smart about it, there are several lessons to learn from this ordeal.

The first lesson is probably the most obvious; the Regime’s information about the virus was faulty precisely because the Regime suppressed and victimized dissent. Contraindications were procedurally ignored or affirmatively hidden. Skeptics were ostracized, bullied and worse. In such a situation, groupthink and confirmation bias were the order of the day, with incalculably deadly consequences.

A corollary of this first lesson is the Regime’s mistaken premise that there could only be one answer for everybody in terms of dealing with Covid-I9. Despite the fact that science itself requires use of control groups in experiments to evaluate a given intervention’s efficacy, entities like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) mandated uniform responses to the v1rus. This discouraged local experimentation which would have shown that some measures and practices were more efficacious than others.

By far the most important lesson, however, is the societal, transgenerational harm which unchecked government can cause. The very idea that government alone can lock us out of our own businesses, worksites and churches, decide who is “essential” and who not, wreck our currency with cataclysmic stimulus packages, patrol private residences to determine whether “too many” people have voluntarily congregated, confine the elderly to vinyl “hug tents” if they want to spend their limited time enjoying familial visits without feeling like lepers… Government must never again be allowed to get away with this! Every official involved in these disastrous decisions should be held accountable to the fullest extent. And for the next “pandemic” – for surely authoritarians will reprise this scenario someday – government must be permanently deprived of the means to force such measures across society!

Daniel Donnelly, Representative, Amenia
March 2nd, 2023