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The well-intentioned swamp rats at DHEC, CDC and WHO are well paid and have been throughout the pandemic. 
Their pay checks weren’t stopped, their businesses closed or jobs lost. They did not have to stand in line to apply for unemployment money to pay bills and feed their families.
It was easy for them to prescribe business, church and school lockdowns for all of us. 
And public officials – safe in their governor’s mansions, chauffeured limos and pay checks sanitarily deposited  in their bank accounts – went along with the draconian rules.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and the rest of the public health bureaucrats are like Washington Swamp creatures, so myopic they can’t see outside the Beltway.
Fauci, the man the media annointed as the greatest medical mind in history, didn’t realize that shutting down treatments for cancer and other serious ailments would cause an enormous death toll of its own?
Nor did it occur to health experts and public officials that the isolation and economic hardship they were keen to inflict on us would drive those struggling under the weight of depression and chemical dependency to kill themselves or overdose on drugs, Michael Thau wrote in the conservative Red State newsletter.
Their brilliant minds didn’t see that prolonged isolation and fear weakens our immunity.
Fauci’s knowledge of medicine somehow didn’t include decades of research showing that crushing restrictions would leave us more vulnerable to covid-19, influenza and other diseases.

Public officials refused to see that locking down nursing homes and depriving residents of human companionship would accelerate the progression of Alzheimer’s and other dementia.
Meanwhile, liberal public officials forced nursing homes to admit covid-infected patients, threw expensive parties and made beauticians open their doors to have their hair done.

But it wasn’t just the blind eye turned to all the misery, hardship, and death lockdowns were sure to cause. The benefits accrued were just as purely theoretical as the catastrophic consequences were inexorably real, Thau wrote in Red State. Indeed, the idea that lockdowns were going to accomplish anything at all depended on a number of assumptions there was every reason to think were false!

For one thing, there was never a shred of scientific evidence that putting healthy people in quarantine would do anything to ameliorate the spread of covid-19. Everything we knew about viruses made the idea of quarantining people who aren’t sick completely absurd. Even the CDC’s most recent pandemic planning guide admitted that “direct evidence for the effectiveness of these measures is limited.” And by “limited” they meant non-existent. There wasn’t a single study that supports the idea that quarantining healthy people was going to do anything to stop a virus from spreading.

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