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It seems the more public health officials and agencies refuse to acknowledge their mistakes, and double down on heavy-handed and one-sided approaches, the more the public’s confidence in them is shaken.
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of people turned to and largely trusted Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other lead public officials and agencies for advice.
The mask debacle was probably the first big mistake that confused people on a wide scale and created broad skepticism.
The decision to advise people to isolate at home was another big mistake, according to many independent scientists. We now know that even CDC acknowledges most Covid is spread in the household. Instead of having people stay home and arresting those surfing by themselves at the beach, our public health officials should have encouraged people to get outdoors. Instead of closing parks and beaches, they should have advised people to go to them.
Some scientists knew this on the front end, but their views were attacked and silenced.
Another big mistake had to do with rushing to put so many people on respirators, which scientists now say probably hastened many deaths.
Another one was the mistaken panic and misrepresentation over running out of respirators: something that never actually happened.
Another one was the panic created over the idea that New York hospitals were being overrun. In fact, when makeshift facilities were erected and sent, such as a large ship, they were not needed.
Another mistake was controversializing medical treatments such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin rather than looking to the actual treatment experience of clinicians and study scientists, and providing a measured and fair assessment.
Another mistake was in public health officials failing to emphasize the importance of diet, exercise and a healthy weight.
Another mistake, according to many scientists, was attempting to isolate everyone rather than those most at risk. The rest of us could have gotten exposed in a way that scientists say is extremely safe for most, and achieved natural immunity which– according to the bulk of studies– is far superior than the vaccines to date.
Another mistake was in failing to recognize that instead of shutting down the economy, the millions who had gotten covid, either with or without symptoms, were likely safe to be the ones to keep the economy going since they largely had strong immunity.
Another widely-acknowledge mistake was in controversializing the vaccine development when it was happening under President Trump.
Another mistake was CDC falsely putting out information that stated the Pfizer and Moderna studies showed those who had already had Covid benefitted further by vaccination. The studies did not show this.
Another mistake was CDC’s director falsely stating that people who are vaccinated cannot spread Covid. They can, and do.
Another mistake was the false claim that people who are vaccinated do not very sick if they get Covid. Some of them do get very sick, and some of them die.
Another mistake was the initial suggestion, early on, that the vaccines would prevent Covid infection. Very quickly, this proved to be untrue. Then, vaccine advocates suggested that was never really the goal.
Another mistake was to controversialize scientists who, in retrospect, were correct with their advice and predictions about the course of action we should and shouldn’t take. Their voices were silenced if they were off the narrative.
Another mistake was allowing Dr. Fauci and others with conflicts of interest (because they were responsible for funding sensitive and dangerous research in partnership with the Communist Chinese) give advice and assessments on where and how they thought the virus originated.
Another mistake was in not being more precise in counting Covid deaths. Instead, deaths of people who happened to have tested positive for Covid and then died, were often grouped into the death count, even if their deaths had little or nothing to do with Covid.
Another mistake is not acknowledging natural immunity and the fact that scientists say it’s better and stronger than vaccine immunity. CDC has, instead, misrepresented the clear science on the issue.
Another mistake is in federal agencies calling Covid a “grave danger” to people in the workplace when, for most, scientists say it is not. CDC also acknowledges that in both adults and children, Covid is generally a non-serious and mild disease marked by few or no symptoms.
Another mistake is to imply that a great deal of research had been done and information was known regarding vaccine side effects, when that is not the case.
Another mistake is not to acknowledge and address the vaccine adverse events in a more open and honest fashion rather than to downplay or deny them.
Another mistake is to call the vaccines safe and effective without the measured caveats about side effects and lack of long term information.
Thoughts?
“Thoughts?” – the perfect last line.
“Never underestimate the power of a question.” —Robert Gore, Straight Line Logic
Shaken faith in public health agencies? Yes. But we were always prepared for that. Most of us would jump to read yet another headline screaming about fraud, waste, etc. We instinctively believed the worst and were ready to read all about it. In this case, we know we should be reading at least a few screaming headlines about vaccine injuries and deaths – not to mention Fauci’s Flip Flops and lies to Congress. But there are no such headlines, at least not in any of the bedrock journalistic sources we once trusted. Our real problem, then, is not so much our shaken trust in health care institutions as our totally shattered trust in journalism.
Another mistake is ignoring the crucial role vitamin d deficiency plays in severity, complications, and risk factors relating to Covid. Vitamin d deficiency has long been considered a global health issue.
It’s also worth noting that people of color, particularly those with darker skin, have greatly increased rates of d deficiency … and correspondingly greater increases of Covid-associated risks.
Please see these studies: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/136/4/1126/4664238
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26643747/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.613462/full
as well as the first 22 citations in this letter to the editor: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n544/rr-1
And I really hope you do a segment on this. I think it’s shocking that our health officials don’t mention a peep about this.
I suspect that behind all this is a Communist Chinese hand and that the COVID pandemic is an accident that they have turned into an opportunity. (I still want to know what Little Rocket Man meant when he told the world that “they had a very special Christmas present for Donald Trump” in mid December 2019.).
The more I read, the more I am am beginning to understand the contents of the book below.
It was first published in Communist China in 1998/9.
Unrestricted Warfare : China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
By (author) Colonel Qiao Liang , By
Other than being aware of the totalitarian dictates, few seem to be concerned with the blatant attempts to control society. Never in America’s history, have so many Americans bowed to such unconstitutional government mandates.
Some of these might have been “honest mistakes” (the only real mistakes). But, perhaps in an attempt to state things apolitically, many of what you label “mistakes” were not mistakes at all, but intentional deceptions driven by the immense profitability of the “vaccines”. The masses, and probably many politicians and journalists, made big mistakes in believing the deceivers, but this entire thing has been driven in such an illogical way that it’s difficult to ignore the possibility that it’s all part of an overarching plan.
Michael Yon, war correspondent par excellence, says your analysis paradigm is off. These are not mistakes, they are attacks: https://locals.com/feed/1297788
Robert Kennedy Jr. has provided all the info on the monumental human disaster that is Fauci in his new book ,The Real Anthony Fauci. How you can come to any other conclusion than the man is a sociopath, is cognitive dissonance in the extreme. The story of his professional decision making and inherent disregard for human life, and in fact complicity in the murder of thousands in the name of “science” makes him the Josef Mengele of our time. He should be tried at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity.
I do think the pandemic has taken the shine off of public health. Federal agencies seem to be fixated on promoting profitable pharmaceuticals. All “mistakes” point us toward a pharma-solution. This is also true at the local level. My county health commissioner gives a covid report to our board of health twice a month. He pushes vaccines and on-patent pharmaceuticals. He downplays all other treatments. He offers zero health advice to the public. .
Another mistake is the utter lack of follow-up studies and analyses from FDA and CDC. These vaccines should (and probably have) provided a tremendous amout of data which no one seems to be collecting or analyzing. In addition to normal data sources we have the VAERS data which seems various groups are analyzing to prove a point, not to learn what the data reveals about the success of the vaccines. CDC is late reporting information and often gets it wrong (like a vaccination is better than natural immunity).
I am amazed that we get better medical analysis from UK and Israel than we do from our own more than 400 million doses of three different vaccines.
I think this is almost criminal.
There was only ONE mistake during this pandemic. That was actually trusting the totally politicalized gov’t faux scientists. These medical Nazis cared nothing for actual research and science but took their instructions from politicians. When Trump was developing the vaccine many “top” leftist politicians advised against and assured that they would not take anything developed by the Trump program.
Suddenly he is out of office and now the same vaccines are MANDATED under unconstitutional and coercive directives. People are losing their livelihoods, their ability to travel and in some cases medical treatment because they are reluctant to take the same vaccine the leftists advised against taking while Trump was in office. This was a political (read Nazi) medical program being forced on the American population. Even deaths caused by vaccine are being hidden.
The article and the comments are diplomatic and politically correct, but for the love of G*d, can we say the hidden things out loud?
We have a group of tyrants and thousands of unelected fledglings running the country. Medical tyranny is the flavor of the method. ‘They’ want to flatten US exceptionalism. The end game is a global government. This powerful few plan to CONTROL the world populous. Collectivism under the guise of Build Back Better. A summary from
Aristotle’s ‘Politics’, circa 380 B.C.
The Art of the Tyrant
* Sow quarrels among people
* Separate people physically
* Favors foreigners
* Makes wars
* Supports lawlessness, a lack of justice
* Excess laws
* Incites fear
Many people are still under the Impression:
1). If you’re vaccinated you’re safe from Covid – You can’t catch it and you can’t spread it. There is evidence that both those assumptions are false.
2). If you are vaccinated you are being vaccinated with an FDA “Approved”/Licensed Vaccine.- This is also apparently false. The “COMIRNATY Vaccine” that has been licensed and “Approved” is not available for distribution according to the Letter released by the FDA. If the vial doesn’t indicate “Comirnaty” then your are still being vaccinated under the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) protocol which I understand is still the trial stage and which prevent you from suing for damages if you are injured by the Vaccine.
ELmo
So appreciate your reporting, Sheryl!
We live in a world where good is called evil and evil is called good.; there is nothing new under the Sun.
We should not be surprised because history tells us that those in power do not care about the common folk.
As Michael Yon says, start prepping for harder times, friends!
Whenever I read the word “mistake,” I substituted the word “manipulation.” It is more revealing than I thought.
Falling for all of these lies – NOT mistakes – is hard evidence that the progressive socialist traitors decades of dumbing down the general populace has been more than effective. It’s been a slam dunk.
Anyone with critical thinking ability and any slight sense of history would have known from the get-go that is was indeed a plandemic; as false as the sun rising in the west. The fact that it has taken those in positions of influence this long to begin to grasp the magnitude of this gigantic scam is disappointing at best. But then, perhaps better late than never?
Better weapon and ammo up, folks. It ain’t gonna get better for a very long time. And as Michael Yon keeps pounding the table, food up as well.
In response to the Covid “pandemic” the government shut down at least two major categories of necessary activities in this country: the economy and the higher brain function of its citizens.
Another mistake is to completely avoid the discussion of the following: How is it vaccinated people can contract Covid-19 but people who’ve had Covid and survived have not contracted Covid again. Not one report! The CDC doesn’t even track it!
Far too many mistakes. This many mistakes aren’t mistakes. This is lockstep deliberation of non-science. This is a population being misled on a grand global scale. It’s not over either. These mistakes must be hidden, obfuscated, indeed carried to the next level because there are too many of them. The biggest mistake today is to believe anything we are being told. We are at war with an enemy that we are being told to worship at the alter of medical (and soon, again, climate) science.
I agree with Michael Yon’s assessment. Replace the word mistake with surprise.
https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/1297788/sharyl-attkisson-appears-to-be-operating-under-faulty-paradigm.