Three Years Since the Inflection Point
The global government shutdowns, justified in the name of fighting a pandemic, were at least as profound a discontinuity in our civilization as was WWII.
Unhappy Anniversary
Three years ago today, Newsmax published what may be my most important article to date; I had written it several days earlier.
In it, I acknowledged that a new infectious virus was indeed a matter of concern. The thrust of the article, however, was that panic-driven government and individual overreaction was a far greater concern.
What makes this article—and others like it, by other authors brave enough to have stood publicly against an overwhelming global supermajority—so important is the widespread push to memory hole the atrocities we’ve lived through. Today’s columns are replete with assertions about things we didn’t know or couldn’t have known early on. Most of those columns are pure and total lies. By mid-March 2020, we already knew everything we needed to know other than some specifics:
Some Things we Knew
We knew that vulnerability to serious illness and death was more-or-less limited to the elderly, immunocompromised, obese, or otherwise held together only through the miracles of modern medicine. We did not know precisely how vulnerable the members of these groups were.
We knew that otherwise healthy children faced no risk of serious illness or death.
We knew that even brief, temporary lockdowns would cause major economic disruptions.
We knew that nothing our government does is ever brief or temporary.
We knew that if human rights exist as a matter of natural law, legitimate governments can’t suspend them.
We knew that isolation was a deadly disease leading to depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide, and rage.
We knew that shutting schools was bad for children, families, normal social development, and psychological health.
We knew that a global shutdown had never before been contemplated, much less attempted.
We knew that when you stop things and restart them, they never return to where they had been before the shutdown.
We knew that it takes quite a while before science can find definitive answers to the questions that new discoveries pose.
We knew that none of our leaders had conducted a cost/benefit analysis of the shutdown—or even considered the costs.
None of these points were remotely subtle. The entire global response to Covid ignored millennia of human learning. The later innovations—masks, emergency vaccines, attacks on potential courses of treatment, suppression of debate, widespread mandates, etc.—were just as mindless and implausible.
It was All Intentional
Furthermore—and this point is critical—at the time the Covid emergency was declared there was no emergency. There were no rampant deaths, no massive illness, no hospitals operating beyond capacity. There was widespread fear that such occurrences were imminent. The shutdowns were never because of a virus. The shutdowns were because of fear.
They were also entirely unnecessary—and likely counterproductive. There were things we could have done to lessen the impact of this imminent virus. They were exactly the same things we’ve done to handle other epidemics. All we had to do was follow the lead that Barack Obama had set a few years earlier. Yes, I’ll say it again. When it came to handling a pandemic, Obama got it right; Trump got it wrong. Spread the credit and the blame however you wish.
The course of action we chose—globally and locally—made things far worse than they had to be. Forget getting things right. The world would be in better shape had we ignored Covid entirely and let it run its course than it is today.
The disruptions thrust upon our lives using the flimsy excuse of “Covid” are still being felt. They will continue to ripple for years. Our political leaders are masters of band-aid and scotch-tape solutions.
The shutdowns were at least as dramatic discontinuity in Western Civilization as was WWII. In 1947, most of Europe still boasted the same streets and buildings it had had in 1937, but it had become a very different place. In 2030, most American streets and buildings will remain as they were in 2020. The country itself will be unrecognizable.
How did We Let it Happen?
In the aftermath of WWII, European sophisticates looked at themselves and wondered how they could have let their glorious, enlightened civilization embark upon so barbaric a project. The answer was simple: A small core group launched the effort intentionally; a majority of Europeans fell obediently—and in many cases, happily—in line. Empower the worst in people, and you will find people at their worst.
By the time this decade is out, much of the world will have to ask itself the same question. Those who are honest will arrive at precisely the same answer.
The world we thought we knew in 2019 is gone. Evil people still unknown planned and executed its demise. Hundreds of millions embraced their own worst instincts to follow their lead.
Those are the messages and the lessons we must never forget. “We couldn’t have known?” Nonsense. All you had to do was pay attention. We did know. You just didn’t give a damn.
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Very accurate!