The Donald’s Disastrous Fourth Year—Statist Dirigisme Like Never Before, Part 2

From the very beginning of the pandemic there were legions of pedigreed epidemiologists and other scientists like professors John Ioannidis of Stanford, Martin Kuldorff of Harvard, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Harvey Risch of Yale and Scott Atlas of the Hoover Institution, among countless others, who strongly opposed the Lockdown regime and sweeping set of public health interventions which accompanied it. Yet only Dr. Atlas made it to the vicinity of the Oval Office, and then for just a few months after August 2020 when the die was already cast.

Many of these dissenting experts later signed the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, which correctly held that viruses cannot be extinguished via draconian quarantines and other clumsy one-size-fits-all public health interventions. Indeed, when it came to coronaviruses in particular, many of these dissenting experts said it was doubtful whether even vaccines—which had never been successful with coronaviruses—could defeat the latter’s natural propensity to mutate and spread. And that, of course, has now been proven in spades.

From day one, therefore, the logical course was to allow the virus to spread its own natural immunity among the public at large, and to focus available resources on the small minority that owing to age, compromised immune systems or comorbidities were vulnerable to severe illness.

The ultimate evidence for this proposition is that among the 4.8 million Israelis who had tested positive for the Covid thru May 2023, there was not a single Covid death in the population under 50-years of age who did not have pre-existing comorbidities. Not one!

The crucial significance of this stunning fact— validated by Israeli public health authorities—cannot be gainsaid. It is flat-out impossible to claim a Black Plague style emergency when not a single healthy person under 50 years of age in an entire nation actually succumbed to the disease. And we are talking about a country that sits at the crossroads of human civilization, not New Zealand stranded all by it lonesome out in the far Pacific.