In the future you'll claim you were always against the lockdowns.
You'll say you knew they'd do great harm and little good, but you'll probably be lying.
Iraq and lockdowns.
One was overseas in 2003 and one was at home in 2020.
Both had bipartisan political support and near unanimous support from the supine and unquestioning mainstream media.
And, as we know now, both were horrible, tragic and stupid blunders that killed, hurt and destroyed the lives of millions of innocent people.
I'm proud to say I was steadfastly against our government’s war in Iraq before we went there in 2003 -- and can prove it with I wrote at the time.
I'm also proud to say that from Day One I was against the imposition of the covid 19 lockdowns in 2020 -- which I immediately said was a horrible mistake and the domestic equivalent of the war in Iraq.
I’m not tooting my horn, I’m just covering my ass.
In the future, I predict — and hope —they’re going to hold the Nuremberg Lockdown Trials to prosecute the authoritarian politicians who abused their powers to shut down our lives, unnecessarily hurt people and violated our civil liberties with lockdowns.
Also on trial will be the supine journalists and pundits in the mainstream media who automatically supported and cheered the lockdowns and shamed or censored anyone who questioned them.
I’m an ex-journalist, but I’d like to offer my defense in advance.
As I wrote in Facebook April 25, 2020:
Trouble is, the 'choice' to either do an extreme shutdown or a targeted one was never ours. The people in charge decided it at federal and state levels. History is not going look kindly on what we did, who did it and who we hurt when we threw 25 million out of work. As I like to say, the shutdown was the domestic equivalent of the Iraq War.
As I wrote in Facebook on May 23, 2020:
At first I said the shutdown was the domestic equivalent of the Iraq War. Now I know how wrong I was. It's worse.
As I wrote in Facebook in July of 2020:
In the real world, where asshole Democrats and asshole Republican decide things, Trump, the CDC, the WHO, most governors, most mayors, the disease 'experts' and the panic media have all done their parts to bring us an unnecessarily severe, ham-handed and crushingly expensive national shutdown that will go down as the domestic equivalent of the war in Iraq. The idea that one party is responsible for it all is hilarious.
I might add that I am proud to have joined the ‘deniers’ early on for mocking the supposed efficacy of cloth masks, social distancing and hand-washing rituals and for attacking the MPM (Mainstream Panic Media) and their journalists for their unquestioning stupidity.
And I’m proud to say that I railed against the people in charge and their public health ‘experts’ for closing schools, restaurants, sporting events and wrecking the economy while failing to focus on protecting the vulnerable in nursing homes.
Speaking of which, Daniel Hannan is a very smart Brit.
When when the damage from lockdowns and various mandates to society is proven to be as bad as some said it would be from the get-go, Hannan wonders how many people 20 years from now will ‘forget’ and claim they were among those who warned against lockdowns.
From his column:
"Did you oppose the Iraq war? Good for you. It seems bizarre, 19 years on, that anyone ever thought it a good idea to spend a trillion pounds, kill hundreds of thousands of civilians and turn millions more into refugees, only to end up destroying Western prestige and creating more extremists in the region than before.
"I have to ask though – forgive my being so blunt – whether you are quite sure that you were against it at the time. You see, according to YouGov, 66 per cent of us backed the invasion when it was launched. Then the disasters began – the civilian casualties, the Abu Ghraib abuses, the rise of Islamic State – and people started to edit their memories. Asked the same question by the same pollster in 2015, only 37 per cent admitted to having backed military action in 2003.
"Something similar, I have no doubt, will happen over the lockdowns. As the dreadful health and economic costs bite, few will recall having supported the closures. Just as most Frenchmen over a certain age remember backing the Resistance, so most Brits will remember being lockdown sceptics. Psychologists call it “hindsight bias”.