The silence is not golden. It’s dangerous. It is even treacherous. The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who. The silence could mean there is more to come. Which is to say that silence equals death.
At least the UK held public hearings, even if they were gamed from the start.
The Covid era of public policy, in the US and all over the world, was the worst deployment of compulsory public policy in our lifetimes.
Hardly anyone can be found today who defends what happened, except perhaps in the most sheepish terms, and nearly always with the obviously false proviso that "We just didn't know then what we know now." That seems like a shabby excuse for what's resulted.
The public silence over this entire subject is beyond bizarre.
As a result, hardly any revelations about Big Tech censorship, excess deaths, contaminated shots, misused funds, or corruption of public officials and academics get media attention at all.
Trump has only been asked a couple of times, and responds as if it was long ago, he did the right thing, and otherwise offers zero in the way of specifics, even though his administration's response arguably wrecked his presidency.
Where is the curiosity to know what it is? After the Great War, there were years of hearings and resulting books and public debate.
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