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all one ever needed to know to conclude that covid was a hoax, or at minimum the panic was a hoax, was the early pronouncement that 'computer models suggest'......

You mean the same computer models that have been predicting climate doom in ten years for the past forty years ?

The objective of climate change has always been control over energy use in particular but standard of living in general.

All of those long term predictions were supposed to have gotten people to worry that 'gee, there might be something to this,' but forty years of failed predictions convinced people that there was no There there.

Covid provided the opportunity to do in one fell swoop what collectivists weren't able to do by measures ranging from gentle prodding to electric shock. This was the opportunity to impose in "2 weeks" what they had failed to do in 4 decades. Thanks to a few holdouts like Sweden and Florida, it became obvious that covid's predictions were every bit as much a hoax as climate change.

The new Republican House has the opportunity to defund the WHO, UN, CDC and Fauci's outfit in preparation for the next President doing to government agencies and employees what Musk just did to Twitter and its employees.

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Closures and masks are the least of the tyrannical Covid response. Killing seniors and permitting them to die alone, injecting babies, and people, including first responders and healthcare workers, losing their jobs take precedence.

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But, but, but...WE HAD GOOD INTENTIONS!!!

Standard leftist excuse for every failure.

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All true Ann, and I'd also wish to urge people to remember HOW the shutdowns were implemented.

Instead of intelligently targeting the at-risk populations (primarily the unwell elderly) for special focus and care, Government entities eagerly embraced the full breadth of their available Emergency Powers to inflict draconian measures upon everyone, regardless of their risk level. They enforced this with the heavy-handed totalitarian zeal that's so common on the Left, There were daily stories of middle-aged people being violently harassed and even beaten in the streets either by law enforcement agencies devoid of reason due to decades of Affirmative Action hiring and a corruption of their forces through cancerous politicization, or by wild-eyed members of the public who viewed the Covid shutdowns as an opportunity to unleash their Inner Brownshirt or Gauleiter.

It was amazing how little it took for friends, family and neighbors to embrace the petty tyrants that had been lurking, dormant, deep in the recesses of their weak minds throughout their lives. They embraced this opportunity with a smug, self-righteous zeal that shocked many of us who thought that we knew these people. The clear data showing that these massive shutdown tactics caused far more harm that good had been freely available for a year but it meant precisely nothing to people who saw their beloved Dr. Fauci say something demonstrably false on Oprah.

Drunk on their emergency powers...and the tsunami of cash these powers made available to them...politicians refused to acknowledge their errors and doubled-down on iron-fisted rules that caused children and adults to lose their way and have their lives needlessly destroyed...sometimes to the point of suicide. We still haven't assessed the full scope of the needless damage caused by the Covid Hysterics because much of it is still in place, primarily in the unenlightened, hard-Left backwaters of deep-blue cities.

Remember also the endless hypocrisy of the politicians and celebrities who would self-righteously lecture The Little People about how they need to curtail every activity in their lives and the next day would be photographed dancing at parties or eating at restaurants, unmasked, and of the ludicrous excuses they gave. "I just got caught up in the fun of the moment" doesn't sit well with parents who have watched their children decline in every way during these needless Dark Days.

The Covid Madness taught us a LOT...chiefly among them that Democrats are totalitarian at their core and do not deserve to be anywhere near the levers of meaningful political power.

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Two months before 9/11, the overlords conducted a pandemic simulation called “Dark Winter.” One week after 9/11, the “terrorist” Anthrax Mailings occurred. Shortly after that, the government issued to the States “model” legislation to enact to allow them to institute Lockdowns, etc. in the event of a pandemic. It was called the Model States Health Emergency Powers Act.

(It is easier for the States to get away with issuing Dictats than for the federal government to do so.)

The overlords then practiced annually how to deal with pandemics. The last one occurred in 2019 at Johns Hopkins University and was called Event 201. Then Covid-19 occurred.

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The Silent majority will be silent no more there will be a large roar!

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Yes it does seem to have some value.

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One solution with several parts:

Stop paying them. Term limit of one. Install voting requirements.

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Thank you for the articles, the update, the back up historical information. It really is dumbfounding behavior displayed and projected onto persons. Distraction of the worst kind. Will vote accordingly. Thank you for follow up Ann.

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Yes be like the Mafia and Michael Corleone. Just remember they first used the lockdowns to get rid of Trump and to exert their power.

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Yes the shutdowns saved people's lives.

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Do you not believe that limiting mass gatherings reduced the number of Covid cases? There are many examples of such gatherings causing increased cases.

Do you not believe the vaccines saved lives? Do you not believe that mask wearing reduced covid cases?

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Yo Ann..

If you ever needed proof that Paul Krugman is either a propagandist or an idiot..

per the latest CDC data:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge

NY Deaths from #Covid19 => 75,302

NY Population => 20,365,879

that's a mortality rate of 0.3697%

FL Deaths from #covid19 => 76,249

FL Population => 22,085,563

that's a mortality rate of 0.3452%

I wonder if Krugman failed to add NYC's deaths and non-NYC NY deaths to get total deaths for the state of NY?

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It appears that a great many of our fellow citizens thought that government mandates and arbitrary power exercise were just great and they’d like more. They have a deal - just take care of me and I’ll do anything you say.

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Florida got DeSantis, Ohio got JD Vance, South Dakota got Noem, Utah got Lee, Texas got Abbott . . . and can anyone explain how Pennsylvania got FETTERMAN??? We knew Oz would not be the perfect candidate, but certainly he was better than the alternative - Obama & Oprah picked FETTERMAN as one of their favorite things. People still believe the commercials: they believed Oz wanted to cut Medicare and Social Security. That was a big belief. Because Obama said it! And I guess many want abortions, the ability to smoke dope and to let all the prisoners out of jail. How sick is our society that FETTERMAN would win. Yep, we are Unsafe.

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