The Left’s Narrative
- More than two years since the lockdowns of 2020, the political mainstream, particularly on the left, is just beginning to realize that the response to Covid was an unprecedented catastrophe.
- The narrative now goes something like this: Lockdowns never really happened, because governments never actually locked people in their homes; but if there were lockdowns, then they saved millions of lives and would have saved even more if only they'd been stricter
- If there were any collateral damage, then that damage was an inevitable consequence of the fear from the virus independent of the lockdown; and even when things were shut down, the rules weren't very strict, but even when the rules were strict, we didn't really support them
- Arguments like these are as facile as they are transparent
- Does anyone honestly think these people would be arguing that lockdowns didn't happen, or that it's impossible to measure their effects, if the policy had been a success?
- As is extraordinarily well-documented by data, video evidence, news reports, government orders, testimonial evidence, and living memory, the strict lockdowns were all too real. And few people publicly opposed them.
https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-the-great-gaslighting/
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