The good news is that the lockdowners now realize they were all wrong
Timothy P. Carney
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There’s plenty of room for righteous anger at the COVID-crazy folks who closed schools in the fall of 2020 (and even the spring of 2021), who outlawed funerals, who took down the basketball hoops and locked up the playgrounds, who canceled outdoor community events for years, and who busted children for hanging around.
Mary Katharine Ham deftly dishes out the anger toward teachers union boss Randi Weingarten and the patron saint of lockdowns, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Weingarten was probably the most important person outside of government in keeping schools closed in the 2020-2021 government, and yet she tries to claim these days that she was fighting to reopen schools. Ham picks her claims apart:
“Let me explain the simple trick Weingarten and her supporters in Congress act like you are too dumb to understand.
“Yes, Weingarten technically said we should open schools ‘safely’ throughout the pandemic. She then always followed that call with demands for standards she knew well would prevent opening, ignoring safe openings elsewhere.”
Meanwhile, the sainted Fauci admits “something clearly went wrong” in our pandemic response. The New York Times writer, David Wallace-Wells, admits, “Almost certainly, schools stayed closed longer than they needed to.” Fauci defends himself, saying, “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that.”
This is moral midgetry from Fauci. He pushed government officials to lock down society, and those government officials obeyed. Fauci bears blame for the harm our elected officials caused children and families, and to see him try and avoid accountability is infuriating.
But there’s enough going on these days to infuriate us, and so I want to try to see a silver lining here:
Read the New York Times piece on Fauci dodging all responsibility for the lockdowns. Read Weingarten pretending she didn’t fight for school closures. Check out Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau running away from his vaccine mandates.
What’s the bright side here?
It’s this: None of these lockdowners and mandaters are willing to defend their horrible positions.
Put another way, Weingarten, Fauci, Trudeau, and most of their fellow travelers have realized that the “granny killers” were right. A vaccine mandate was a horrific position. Closing schools for a year was monstrous. Lockdowns were evil.
The lockdowners all realize that now.
It’s bad that they might get away without paying a price, but at least they don’t defend their actions.