Emily Oster proposes “a pandemic amnesty,” suggests that “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID”
Emily Oster proposes “a pandemic amnesty,” suggests that “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID”
I don’t know much about the American pandemic pundits, but I gather that Brown University economist and “parenting guru” Emily Oster is far from the worst of them. Her Twitter timeline suggests she spent the early months of the pandemic terrified about the virus until school closures took their toll on her kids, at which point she repositioned herself as a kind of lockdown moderate, opposing the worst of the hystericist excesses while validating their central premises whenever possible to save face with friends and colleagues.
My favorite quote: "It is just hard to put into words how infuriating it is, to read this breezy triviliasation of the absolute hell we’ve been through, penned by some comfortable and clueless Ivy League mommyconomist who is ready to mouth support for basically any pandemic policy that doesn’t directly affect her or her family and then plead that the horrible behaviour and policies supported by her entire social milieu are just down to ignorance about the virus. We knew everything we needed to know about SARS-2 already in February 2020. The pandemicists and their supporters crossed many bright red lines in their eradicationist zeal and ruined untold millions of lives. That doesn’t all just go away now."
Oct 31, 2022·edited Oct 31, 2022Liked by eugyppius
i agree there should be a general covid related amnesty.
all those that have been treated like criminals and tortured for not following the orders of the covidian mob, should get one " get out of jail card " for whatever crime they commit towards their torturers.
torch the premises of the company that fired you and made you loose your home? use the get out of jail card.
shoot the doctor that refused to perform life saving surgery on your child because you weren' t vaccinated? use the get out of jail card.
the card should have a lifelong validity.
let them be afraid for the rest of their lives....
Oct 31, 2022·edited Oct 31, 2022Liked by eugyppius
Emily Osters whole shtick is normies who like to pretend they are data driven free thinkers.
You know the imbeciles who have the Facebook frame that proclaim they have a healthy distrust of authority AND they got irreversible injected with a liability-free pharmaceutical product because the .gov and tiktokers told them to? They’re her wheelhouse. Her book Expecting Better is freakonomics for normie pregnant women. Drink caffeine! Eat sushi! But don’t have a home birth!
No, and I paid a high price in my family for not getting the jab. Also paid a very high price for my blue state's lockdowns...lost sight in one eye, because the surgery center "got Covid" and closed for over a week. So,"Professor" - take your attitude and shove it. It's what liberals always do - after they get away with it (always), "time to move on." The most dangerous people are stupid smart people - stay within your little class and your little subject and leave everyone else alone.
Too many people died because your side lied. Too many left with horrific and lifelong side effects.
Oct 31, 2022·edited Oct 31, 2022Liked by eugyppius
Great rant! Right up their with your outrage over public health officials kid-gloving monkeypox.
In a just world, those who lost their livelihoods would sit in judgment of those who cheered the efforts to deny them employment and medical treatment.
Forgiveness can be granted, but punishment for these human rights violations must be meted out.
I have strained relations with my son, my ex-wife and some other family because I got red-pilled early. Was called out on a company zoom call, then "let go" 2 months later. My wife and friends asked me to go to counseling but that dude was so left wing blue pill that he wouldn't read any articles I was reading, and asked repeatedly why I believed them instead of helping me. F many of these people.
Until the last couple of weeks my position was: I will forgive anyone for any insult occurring over the past 2.5 years, as long as they appear sincere and use appropriate language (e.g. "Sorry for being such a fucking asshole"). But now that I see all these motherfuckers walking back their previous positions, some denying they held them, some accusing "others," some finally asking "why," I realize they've destroyed yet another important part of being human, namely forgiveness. They've debased the concept and are now using it as a weapon against honesty itself.
They "didn't know better" and were "frightened," so much that they could trivialize and marginalize anyone who asked questions. They re-invented the terms "misinformation" and "disinformation," they disinvited me because of my vaccination status, they called world-renown doctors and scientists quacks, they forced 100s of 1000s of people out of their jobs, and now these same pathetic pieces of shit are asking me to understand that they were scared and ignorant little cunts, that the devil made them do it.
So until the perpetrators, enablers, and cheerleaders are all arrested, tried, and punished appropriately for killing millions and destroying the world, I have two words for them, rhyming with "duck stew."
Emily was clueless before the deep-state operation, clueless during it and will remain clueless until the moment her entire existence is called into question when billions demand justice for the endless lies, injures & deaths she helped cause. The brain-dead narcissism of the current generations is a spectacle to behold. 10,000 Emilys are not worth the myocarditis injury of one college age student in this nation.
Perhaps, at that final moment when she looks into a mirror and understands she is no better than any common genocidal sociopath, the reality of the scale of the crimes she has helped commit will dawn on her. Of course, I am sure there were many Nazis out there who were convinced their consciences were clean to their dying days. After all, they were just useful idiots following orders.
Forgive "each other?" She means forgive her. I don't require anyone's forgiveness because I never kept families apart. I never destroyed anyone's business, education, supply chain, religious service, or mental health. I never called for anyone's deplatformimg, internment, or forced vaccination. Go away and leave me alone like you should have done from the start.
My favorite quote: "It is just hard to put into words how infuriating it is, to read this breezy triviliasation of the absolute hell we’ve been through, penned by some comfortable and clueless Ivy League mommyconomist who is ready to mouth support for basically any pandemic policy that doesn’t directly affect her or her family and then plead that the horrible behaviour and policies supported by her entire social milieu are just down to ignorance about the virus. We knew everything we needed to know about SARS-2 already in February 2020. The pandemicists and their supporters crossed many bright red lines in their eradicationist zeal and ruined untold millions of lives. That doesn’t all just go away now."
Her proposal is fatuous. Forgiveness at this point is begging for endless repeats of the last three years.
i agree there should be a general covid related amnesty.
all those that have been treated like criminals and tortured for not following the orders of the covidian mob, should get one " get out of jail card " for whatever crime they commit towards their torturers.
torch the premises of the company that fired you and made you loose your home? use the get out of jail card.
shoot the doctor that refused to perform life saving surgery on your child because you weren' t vaccinated? use the get out of jail card.
the card should have a lifelong validity.
let them be afraid for the rest of their lives....
don' t get mad, get even....
Yeah, well, I'll consider forgiveness when they admit that what they did to CHILDREN was wrong!
Emily Osters whole shtick is normies who like to pretend they are data driven free thinkers.
You know the imbeciles who have the Facebook frame that proclaim they have a healthy distrust of authority AND they got irreversible injected with a liability-free pharmaceutical product because the .gov and tiktokers told them to? They’re her wheelhouse. Her book Expecting Better is freakonomics for normie pregnant women. Drink caffeine! Eat sushi! But don’t have a home birth!
No, and I paid a high price in my family for not getting the jab. Also paid a very high price for my blue state's lockdowns...lost sight in one eye, because the surgery center "got Covid" and closed for over a week. So,"Professor" - take your attitude and shove it. It's what liberals always do - after they get away with it (always), "time to move on." The most dangerous people are stupid smart people - stay within your little class and your little subject and leave everyone else alone.
Too many people died because your side lied. Too many left with horrific and lifelong side effects.
Also the Atlantic: "There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations"
https://archive.ph/R2MvO
Great rant! Right up their with your outrage over public health officials kid-gloving monkeypox.
In a just world, those who lost their livelihoods would sit in judgment of those who cheered the efforts to deny them employment and medical treatment.
Forgiveness can be granted, but punishment for these human rights violations must be meted out.
Thank you for writing this and saving me time today.
People like myself battled Emily Oster on Twitter from the get-go. She was, indeed, comfortable and clueless.
What she and other pandemicists are missing is that they must
1. Confess to what they did, specifically and without excuse-making;
2. Acknowledge it was wrong, misguided, and hurt people;
3. Apologize;
4. Humbly ask for forgiveness;
5. (However possible), make restitution, and
6. Be forgiven.
I have strained relations with my son, my ex-wife and some other family because I got red-pilled early. Was called out on a company zoom call, then "let go" 2 months later. My wife and friends asked me to go to counseling but that dude was so left wing blue pill that he wouldn't read any articles I was reading, and asked repeatedly why I believed them instead of helping me. F many of these people.
Until the last couple of weeks my position was: I will forgive anyone for any insult occurring over the past 2.5 years, as long as they appear sincere and use appropriate language (e.g. "Sorry for being such a fucking asshole"). But now that I see all these motherfuckers walking back their previous positions, some denying they held them, some accusing "others," some finally asking "why," I realize they've destroyed yet another important part of being human, namely forgiveness. They've debased the concept and are now using it as a weapon against honesty itself.
They "didn't know better" and were "frightened," so much that they could trivialize and marginalize anyone who asked questions. They re-invented the terms "misinformation" and "disinformation," they disinvited me because of my vaccination status, they called world-renown doctors and scientists quacks, they forced 100s of 1000s of people out of their jobs, and now these same pathetic pieces of shit are asking me to understand that they were scared and ignorant little cunts, that the devil made them do it.
So until the perpetrators, enablers, and cheerleaders are all arrested, tried, and punished appropriately for killing millions and destroying the world, I have two words for them, rhyming with "duck stew."
No justice, NO FUCKING FORGIVENESS.
Never forget, never forgive. The destruction of people's lives worldwide was totally preventable. We knew then and know it even more today.
Emily was clueless before the deep-state operation, clueless during it and will remain clueless until the moment her entire existence is called into question when billions demand justice for the endless lies, injures & deaths she helped cause. The brain-dead narcissism of the current generations is a spectacle to behold. 10,000 Emilys are not worth the myocarditis injury of one college age student in this nation.
Perhaps, at that final moment when she looks into a mirror and understands she is no better than any common genocidal sociopath, the reality of the scale of the crimes she has helped commit will dawn on her. Of course, I am sure there were many Nazis out there who were convinced their consciences were clean to their dying days. After all, they were just useful idiots following orders.
No.
Forgive "each other?" She means forgive her. I don't require anyone's forgiveness because I never kept families apart. I never destroyed anyone's business, education, supply chain, religious service, or mental health. I never called for anyone's deplatformimg, internment, or forced vaccination. Go away and leave me alone like you should have done from the start.
Trials first, forgiveness second. These crimes against humanity must have consequences!