Fauci is not Pharaoh

Howard Schneider would like five minutes of your time to understand how U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Keep that in mind as Tablet angles for conservative funds by poasting this, at Moldbuggian levels of loquacity without providing Moldbuggian levels of content. In it, I find this:

Boldly dismissing without argument the fact that viral infections cannot be stopped from running their course once they have taken root in a population, they asserted that acquiescing to indefinite cessation of social and economic activities they deemed to be nonessential would stop the disease’s progression. The ensuing lockdowns, mask mandates, and other measures made life for most Americans worse in every way.

If that viral infections cannot be stopped from running their course once they have taken root in a population is a fact, this poast itself boldly states it without argument. We're just shouting slogans at each other.

At least the latter uses the word most. Although the masks were a trivial inconvenience compared to the alternative, SARS-2, which absolutely made life worse for anyone who contracted it. But then the Julie Kelly set would have you understand that Long CoVID doesn't exist.

We cannot even argue the point, because the whole well has been poisoned. This claim is buried in a larger article against The Oligarchy. If counterinformation comes from The Oligarchy, it is invalid.

They even dare cite the Exodus. All I can say to that is, get over yourself. Unlike Pharaoh the Oligarchy was not trying to ruin lives, at least not with the CoVID measures, but to save them. Here is the Jewish way to Godwin. Funny how the people who claim they want an honest conversation kick it off like this. SHUT IT DOWN

Perhaps the "vaccine passport" is an idea whose time has not come and should not come. The people arguing against it are selfish people, dishonest people; people who have abrogated their moral right to the franchise, and are too epistemically-closed to contribute to so much as a conversation.

It is difficult to argue against the "vaccine passport" or against the Oligarchy generally when the opposition thereto was, in its former iteration, a death-cult.

UPDATE: I mean, also, there's Matt Gaetz. Victim. I suppose... yeah, it's a curse.

UPDATE 2: Donate NAO. Trump will be President any month now.

UPDATE 4/1: Fool's Day. Sarah Palin isn't joking.