An article in the Atlantic recently suggested there should be “amnesty” for those who got things wrong during the pandemic.
The piece was written by Dr. Emily Oster, who was, to her credit, one of the only liberal-leaning voices of reason during the pandemic. Amid the COVID madness, Oster argued that schools should be open. She often spoke of the virus’s low risk for children. And when liberals freaked out about masks, she fought back with stats that proved mask mandates for children were statistically unwarranted and morally unacceptable.
Unfortunately, that reasonable voice was lacking from her latest piece, which suggested those who pushed the policies that separated families and stunted the health and mental wellness of American children should be forgiven. People like Dr. Anthony Fauci, who suggested children were in danger when conservative leaders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reopened their states’ schools, should be given a pass because we were “living in darkness” at the time, she wrote. There was too much we didn’t know about COVID, and the public ought to accept that and just move on, according to Oster.
It’s not hard to see why a liberal publication like the Atlantic would publish such an argument right now.
Republicans are set to win the House and possibly take the Senate during this week’s midterm elections. Their Democratic opponents, many of whom are responsible for the lockdowns, vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and school shutdowns, are about to pay for these crimes. Perhaps the Left hopes that, by feigning ignorance, they can convince conservative America not to punish the elites responsible for the desolation of the past two years.
This appeal to American compassion is pure desperation, and it falls on deaf ears. People don’t want forgiveness right now; we want a reckoning.
We still remember the havoc Democrats’ COVID policies wrought on our communities. We remember that people died in hospitals alone. Women gave birth without their husbands present. Adolescent suicides increased with school shutdowns. Drug and alcohol addiction and the deaths associated with those diseases ticked up dramatically. Children fell behind in school, mental health became a national issue, and our economy was damaged beyond repair.
The full extent of the pandemic and its consequences are still unknown. We will likely have to pay off the consequences of our government’s decisions for years while those in charge reap the benefits of some suspiciously timed investments and alleged handouts from Big Pharma companies. (You know, the ones that Fauci keeps unapologetically reminding us he has no moral obligation or legal requirement to disclose.)
Amnesty is not possible when the wrongdoing is this severe. I can speak from experience: I know for certain that my family and I will never find it in our hearts to look the other way and allow Fauci and his pals to retire into comfort — not after what they stole from us.
In March 2020, just one week before the year-and-a-half-long “two weeks to slow the spread” initiative began, my mother was diagnosed with stage 3.5 breast cancer. At that stage, the cancer was curable, but immediate invention was necessary.
Because of the policies put in place under public health officials’ tyrannical recommendation, her mastectomy was delayed until October of that year. COVID policies made it impossible for cancer centers to treat new patients while maintaining the number of open beds the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed were necessary in case American healthcare centers became overwhelmed by COVID patients.
While we waited for care, the cancer spread to her lungs. With that, her diagnosis changed from stage 3.5 to stage 4. Cancer to metastatic cancer. This prognosis is determined to be terminal, with an optimistic life expectancy of two to three years.
She’s only 52 years old. She runs thriving businesses, has five grandchildren, and raised two daughters who will likely never be able to forgive those who demanded we shut down the world in the name of healthcare while they let our mother get sicker.
If these pandemic pushers want forgiveness, they can ask God. From America, they will get the justice they deserve. If we’re lucky, it will be a reckoning.
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Corinne Clark is a political strategist who splits her time between Washington, D.C., for work and Reno, Nevada, where she cares for her mother. You can follow her on Twitter @CorinneC.
