Thomas Sowell sums up COVID response 25 years in advance
Something on Twitter today made me think back to a passage in The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell, published in 1996. I’d say with a very few minor modifications, he pretty much nails our COVID response (lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates):
If you are not familiar with Prof. Sowell’s work, do yourself a great service and start reading him. His library of work is quite daunting, but The Vision of the Anointed might be a great place to start.
Nails it as usual, Sowell is one of the greatest. The part of this whole mess that gives me the biggest chills are the actions to cover up and obfuscate the causal link between their policies and Z eg. articles about heart disease in kids and increased deaths in athletes due to...something, deliberately making data hard to access by moving it, changing the format or even just not collecting it, and other assorted BS to cover up excess deaths due to vaccines.
Those civil servants and reporters can't have done any real research at all on these matters, as they are entirely fabricated, and so have to be suspicious on some level that those stories or changes in policy just appeared out of the blue at the behest of their superiors. Even if they manage to push this thought aside and pretend they're doing the right thing, deep down they know. These are one of the categories of people who will hold on to the bitter end, unable to admit they did dark, self-serving things and ignored their inner voice.
WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
THIS IS SOMETHING!
WE MUST DO THIS!