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"Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty" probably came from a well intentioned, if self serving place.

The problem that got her in real trouble, is it's typical The Atlantic bad journalism echo chamber bull.

She knew she was guilty - but of what, specifically, is so poorly spelled out it's no wonder the internet played T-ball with the article for a week.

To have an amnesty with someone - to make peace, you have to physically speak to them, hear and understand their greivances. She tried to make peace - but for what? This data scientist has no specific data on that point. This journalist certainly never spoke with, or quoted someone who could name her sins.

If you don't think the grievances of the other side are legitimate, you can't request amnesty for them - and should you?

Honestly, I don't know if the Honestly round table of reluctant democrat wine moms is the place to work this problem. But a good editor could have fixed the Atlantic article in about 5 minutes, and hopefully the Free Press will hire one to fix this and the #diedsuddenlty article that didn't mention the fact that it would be #miocarditis if that weren't banned.

(Editor- a twitter article about right wing suppression on twitter that doesn't mention twitter? Durring the twitter files drops? you guys wanna work this a bit?)

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