Dr. Tom Woods recently pointed out two things. First, more and more of the people who have credentials are speaking out at last about the COVID fiasco. The media’s ability to silence everyone who opines against the government’s narratives is slipping away. Second, vindication has come to some public figures who stood up and spoke out early for the people.
Stefanos Kales, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, noted:
“Public health is a balance. How many businesses closed and did not make it through that first six to twelve months? A lot of these restaurants, their business is still way down. Large companies can survive, but a lot of small businesses have gone under. And that takes a toll on the health of people who work there or own those businesses.”
What Kales is saying is that public health is affected by many things. Measures that might help mitigate the spread of a virus may also bring with them adverse effects that are as bad or worse than the virus. One should not be fixated on a single item like filling the pockets of Big Pharma at the expense of the public.
Kales went on:
“This whole idea of we just ignore everything else in the economy and health and well-being to try to get to zero COVID cases [was] never a realistic goal and it has failed miserably. We haven’t balanced all these other things. The fentanyl overdoses in the US are at a record high as well as other opioids. Suicidality in young people. It’s a big mistake.”
How many more people with credentials will feel empowered to speak up now that Kales has done so?
Vindication has come for Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. It has come from the unlikeliest of places, that den of woke progressivism, the Washington Post.
Then:
Now:
Then there are these two items:
August, 2021
January 2022
It sounds like WaPo is retreating to a position where they will admit that COVID is endemic just like many other coronaviruses. This includes acknowledging that COVID acts like other coronaviruses and that surges of viral infection are a normal activity of viruses.