Amnesty? Where was the compassion two years ago.

By now you have all seen the Atlantic article begging for amnesty over what they did to us during the plandemic they started. If you haven’t, go read it, and I’ll wait here.

Now that you are sufficiently pissed off after reading that bit of propaganda, let’s dive into it. First, the author starts with a tale about her family wearing masks while hiking outdoors. This alone was almost enough for me to stop reading but it gets worse. She goes on to say that not only did they have a symbol for when someone else was walking up the trail so that they could don their masks (made out of cloth no less) but her child yelled at another child for wanting to interact with him. So not only are you wearing a piece of cloth that actually would worsen the spread (indoors though since outdoor transmission was moot like many said since the beginning.) but you trained your child to yell at other children for simply wanting to play with him. I bet you are a blast at parties.

All of this is brushed aside as simply a misunderstanding due to a lack of knowledge. “We didn’t know,” she says as if that will free them of any social or even potential criminal consequences. I’m surprised she went with that route and not the age-old, “we were doing what we were told”. Probably because some other guys got in trouble for that in a military tribunal in the late 40s? Weren’t they also demonizing a group of people and practicing medical experiments without consent? “I didn’t know” didn’t work when you were a child, it doesn’t get you out of a speeding ticket, and it will not get you out of everything you and your “we have to do something” spineless kind did to our country over the last 2 years.

Do not forget that they wanted to make things as locked down as Australia did or as locked down as China still is. They wanted us jailed for simply questioning the narrative they put out. Questioned our sanity for not worshipping government entities and employees the same way they did. Any time we used facts or science to back our claims they said “the science is settled!” in a complete mockery of the scientific method and centuries of scientific discovery.

I lost a grandfather to the mishandling of a disease no more deadly than the flu. When he was on his deathbed, only my grandmother was able to visit, and only while she was in a surgical gown, gloves, and a mask. She had just recovered from Covid and arguably could not catch it again. But hospital policy became totalitarian and immune to common sense. His funeral was held over zoom because we couldn’t hold one in person. I will never get more time with him, he will never get to play with his great-grandchild again. And THEY took that from me. There was no treatment plan for covid. All of the teaching hospitals had the exact same treatment plan for covid. They should have been trying to figure out something different at each one. There is a reason why they call it practicing medicine. But doctors were too scared to try something different since what they were doing wasn’t working. But it was making the hospitals buckets of money for simply placing someone on a ventilator.

People were given unchecked power and went mad with it. Shutting down businesses for perceived or made-up infractions. Small businesses were targeted because they did not have the ability to get themselves exemptions for blanket policies or could not meet the guidelines. Over 60% of the small businesses that closed have not reopened. All while Amazon and Walmart saw record profits.

The education of children has been destroyed by this. We pulled kids out of school and expected them to be able to handle the intricacies of online school with no set standard even from teacher to teacher. Test scores have dropped to record lows. But there is a silver lining here. More families are homeschooling than ever and those that aren’t are actually being more active in their child’s education than ever before.  But for those with parents who simply don’t care, they will be trying to catch up and may have to repeat a grade or two. We forced kids to wear masks knowing it would impair younger children’s ability to learn how to talk and to learn proper social interaction. But don’t worry, the FBI decided to investigate parents that questioned the school boards too heavily.

Amnesty. It would be laughable if the results of their actions were not so serious. They chastised us, mocked us, belittled us. Wanted us thrown in jail, or even killed for our opinions. And now they see that fear only led to ruin. They let fear control them and now they are going to lose everything.

The Lord’s prayer has a part where it asks us to “forgive those who trespass against us”. I don’t know if I will be able to forgive them. But even if I can, that doesn’t mean I can not hold them accountable for their actions. And I suggest you do the same.