I'm not a mom, but listen to Honestly often--and as someone who wrote about Oster's desire for a "pandemic amnesty," I felt I should hear her out. It changed nothing, really. Oster's nuanced response to her call for following the data during covid belies her own admission that she had her children yelled at other children to keep their d…
I'm not a mom, but listen to Honestly often--and as someone who wrote about Oster's desire for a "pandemic amnesty," I felt I should hear her out. It changed nothing, really. Oster's nuanced response to her call for following the data during covid belies her own admission that she had her children yelled at other children to keep their distance and put their masks on. Outside. While walking past them. But more importantly, or perhaps tragically, Oster seems to think that this is all some sort of incompetent explosion of not following the data. Not once does she even make a possible conjecture that the data was manipulated (death rates, who is dying, what they're dying from), sometimes invented out of whole cloth (masks work, vaccines are safe and effective). Nor does she point out the most obvious data flaw; that during now a whole three years not one randomized controlled trial was done--not one. Not on masks. Not on the virus and its impact. Certainly not on vaccines. The failure of the CDC, NIH, FDA and WHO--are not merely failures, then--they are at the very least, some of them are--willful strong-arming of un-elected government officials over a supposedly free populous. It is a shameful period of our lives, and there is no guarantee that it won't happen again unless people of every political stripe choose liberty over this dangerous, even maniacal, money-grab/political control. Oster was more concerned about forgiving Fauci, Birx, Collins--the former and latter of the triumvirate who clearly worked to destroy the reputations of Dr.'s Battacharya, Kuldorf and Gupta, and Lord knows what else they did, though the Twitter files make it clear that at the very least, they--and actors within govt. up to and including the immediate former, and current POTUS's worked to remove the free speech rights of American citizens. And for that--we're supposed to call an amnesty? At least be a serious player, if you're going to play at all, Ms. Oster.
Totally agree, this was not government leaders innocently getting it wrong. It was about control and it should be fully exposed as much as possible, not glossed over.
I'm not a mom, but listen to Honestly often--and as someone who wrote about Oster's desire for a "pandemic amnesty," I felt I should hear her out. It changed nothing, really. Oster's nuanced response to her call for following the data during covid belies her own admission that she had her children yelled at other children to keep their distance and put their masks on. Outside. While walking past them. But more importantly, or perhaps tragically, Oster seems to think that this is all some sort of incompetent explosion of not following the data. Not once does she even make a possible conjecture that the data was manipulated (death rates, who is dying, what they're dying from), sometimes invented out of whole cloth (masks work, vaccines are safe and effective). Nor does she point out the most obvious data flaw; that during now a whole three years not one randomized controlled trial was done--not one. Not on masks. Not on the virus and its impact. Certainly not on vaccines. The failure of the CDC, NIH, FDA and WHO--are not merely failures, then--they are at the very least, some of them are--willful strong-arming of un-elected government officials over a supposedly free populous. It is a shameful period of our lives, and there is no guarantee that it won't happen again unless people of every political stripe choose liberty over this dangerous, even maniacal, money-grab/political control. Oster was more concerned about forgiving Fauci, Birx, Collins--the former and latter of the triumvirate who clearly worked to destroy the reputations of Dr.'s Battacharya, Kuldorf and Gupta, and Lord knows what else they did, though the Twitter files make it clear that at the very least, they--and actors within govt. up to and including the immediate former, and current POTUS's worked to remove the free speech rights of American citizens. And for that--we're supposed to call an amnesty? At least be a serious player, if you're going to play at all, Ms. Oster.
Totally agree, this was not government leaders innocently getting it wrong. It was about control and it should be fully exposed as much as possible, not glossed over.
There were many randomized controlled studies done on the vaccines, in the U.S. and elsewhere.
yes exactly right