Must Read: The Atlantic Asks for COVID Amnesty – Emily Burns Says "No Thank You"

“There was no mistake. There was a political calculation that harmed us, but even more, that harmed our children.”

Nov 02, 2022

After shutting down debate and declaring “the Science ™ is settled,” the people in charge would very much like to proclaim, “We did the best we could; we didn’t know any better.”

But after ignoring the signals of harm while silencing their critics, there is no doubt they knew what they were doing. And if we allow them to get away scot-free this time, what’s to stop them from doing it again?

Emily Burns writes:

Emily [Oster of the Atlantic] is asking us to forgive a mistake. There was no mistake. There was a political calculation that harmed us, but even more, that harmed our children.

Relamination

With whom does Emily Oster want an amnesty? Moms, so they will return to the democratic fold

We are still a long ways from a place where a COVID amnesty can be granted. The political establishment—left and right—want desperately to move on, to pretend the last 30 months didn’t happen. With very few exceptions (Ron DeSantis, Kirsti Noem, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Ron Johnson, and a few others, later), they betrayed their core values. Many Republ…

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Must Read: The Atlantic Asks for COVID Amnesty – Emily Burns Says "No Thank You"

“There was no mistake. There was a political calculation that harmed us, but even more, that harmed our children.”

Emily Burns writes:

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