COVID Amnesty: We All Make Mistakes, So Let's Just Move On (or Do We Need Hearings & Prison?)

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Some now call for "COVID amnesty" — an effort to forgive and forget, and move on without consequences, hearings, trials or jail time, for those who pushed bad science into bad policy. But will that achieve a long-term beneficial outcome for the country, or merely mask the real process challenges we face? Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott create five new episodes of Right Angle each week, including one for Members only. This episode of Right Angle is actually an excerpt from our Backstage meeting, and a test of a new approach to our longest-running show. If you enjoyed this free-wheeling interplay, let us know with a donation using bank card or PayPal: https://billwhittle.com/donate-to-bill-whittle/

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0:00.0	So this article came out a couple days ago about the idea of COVID amnesty.
0:08.7	Oh, yeah.
0:09.9	The what?
0:11.1	Yeah.
0:11.7	So basically.
0:12.5	I wrote about this yesterday and a blood boiling.
0:14.5	Yeah.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:15.6	It was an article that came out about, hey, look, you know, we all, nobody knew what was going on. We all made some
0:22.1	bad decisions. We need to put all this behind us and, you know, and stop blaming each other and
0:27.2	just openly admit that nobody knew what was going on, so we should just all give ourselves
0:31.3	a pass and move on. And I was more than willing to agree with that premise right up to
0:37.2	about the end of April of 2020.
0:39.3	And certainly by October of 2020, when the Great Barrington Declaration was released by any number of people who were actual, you know, epidemiologists, medical specialists, all that kind of things, saying we're doing more harm than good.
0:56.1	So I'm not inclined to want to forgive and forget after a certain point because by a certain
1:05.8	point, and certainly by October, and I would argue by much early by the end of April 2020,
1:09.6	we knew exactly what we were
1:11.9	facing and that all of these shutdowns and all of this stuff, all of these things that destroyed
1:16.4	businesses, all of the people that were put out of work, all of the suicides, all of the kids
1:20.7	who now have lifelong learning disabilities and all the rest of it were the result of having
1:25.7	politicized this virus and going against
1:28.9	what everybody knew to be true. So I want to discuss that issue of whether or not this was
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