Was it illegal to say "We don't know" when public health officials didn't know? Instead, they showed hubris when they should have admitted ignorance, hurting millions of people, killing some of them and setting children backwards in their education, by imposing a nationwide lockdown. Here's an example of how they "followed the science."
I will now summarize the CDC position: We are so absolutely certain that unvaccinated deaths will ALWAYS be higher than unvaccinated deaths, that we are going to stop collecting this data.
The current manual of the U.S. Surgeon General spells out the definitions of misinformation and disinformation. And now it’s all so very clear, thank you. As I see it, the only vague words in these two definitions are: "false," "inaccurate," "misleading" "according to" "best," "available" "serve" "malicious" and "trick." I might have missed a few others.
When the next pandemic comes along, all we need to do is ask the government to figure out what these words mean and to protect us from thinking for ourselves.
Across the media landscape, the already hyperbolic phrase was often cut short to “Nobody is safe.”
“Nobody is safe.” - Chris Cuomo, CNN (10/23/20)
“Nobody is safe.” - Rob Scmitt, Fox News (3/30/20)
“This virus is raging everywhere and no one is safe” - Senator Bob Casey, CNN (11/20/20)
By August 2021, NPR’s Tamara Keith told CBS News that the phrase had “almost become cliche”.
While the world was told “Nobody is safe from COVID-19” the actual infection fatality rate (IFR) was less than 0.5%. In other words, the natural immune systems of approximately 99.5% would defeat the original Alpha COVID variant without a vaccine. For children, the risk of dying is 0.0%. But the constant “Nobody is safe” mantras led citizens to believe the virus was more deadly than it actually was, spreading a man-made pandemic: a hyperpolarizing pandemic of fear.
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