You're supposed to learn from your mistakes. Not double down on...

You're supposed to learn from your mistakes. Not double down on failures (unless there's ulterior motives..)

08/23/22

Too Little Too Late: WSJ Tries to Save Face on Failed COVID Policies

Now that our public health agencies ’leaders have admitted failure when it comes to their COVID-19 policies, the Wall Street Journal suddenly has the “courage” to offer a stiff critique.

By Madhava Setty, M.D.

The Wall Street Journal last week published an opinion piece, “Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response,” with this subhead: “Lockdowns were oppressive and deadly. But U.S. and WHO officials plan worse for the next pandemic.”

..dropped a series of “truth bombs,” including:

· “Their oppressive measures were taken against the longstanding advice of public-health experts, who warned that they would lead to catastrophe and were proved right.”

· “For all the talk from officials like Dr. Fauci about following ‘the science,’ these leaders ignored decades of research — as well as fresh data from the pandemic — when they set strict Covid regulations.”

· “The burden of proof was on them to justify their dangerous experiment, yet they failed to conduct rigorous analyses, preferring to tout badly flawed studies while refusing to confront obvious evidence of the policies’ failure.”

· “U.S. states with more-restrictive policies fared no better, on average, than states with less-restrictive policies.”

· “When case rates throughout the pandemic are plotted on a graph, the trajectory in states with mask mandates is virtually identical to the trajectory in states without mandates. (The states without mandates actually had slightly fewer COVID deaths per capita.)”

· A Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of studies around the world concluded that lockdown and mask restrictions have had “little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.”

· Florida’s and Sweden’s open policies have been vindicated based upon their lower levels of excess mortality compared to other regions.

· “It was bad enough that Fauci, the CDC and the World Health Organization ignored the best scientific advice at the start of this pandemic. It’s sociopathic for them to promote a worse catastrophe for future outbreaks.”

Read the complete article: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/wall-street-journal-wsj-covid-policies/