{"id":17986,"date":"2023-02-09T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:33:52","slug":"covid-robbers-as-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/09\/covid-robbers-as-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Robbers as Victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/covid-robbers-as-victims\/\">Covid Robbers as Victims? <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-31-at-08-34-12-brownstone-institute-logo-Google-Search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17877\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-31-at-08-34-12-brownstone-institute-logo-Google-Search.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-31-at-08-34-12-brownstone-institute-logo-Google-Search.png 788w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-31-at-08-34-12-brownstone-institute-logo-Google-Search-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-31-at-08-34-12-brownstone-institute-logo-Google-Search-768x367.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">By <span class=\"posted-by vcard author\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by James Bovard\" href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/author\/james-bovard\/\" rel=\"author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"multiple_authors_guest_author_avatar avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/James-Bovard-768x768-1.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/James-Bovard-768x768-1.jpeg\" alt=\"James Bovard\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><span class=\"author-name\">James Bovard<\/span><\/a> <\/span> \u00a0 <span class=\"posted-on\"><span class=\"published\"> February 9, 2023<\/span><\/span> \u00a0 <span class=\"tags-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/tag\/policy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Policy<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Biden rewrote the history of the pandemic. Biden lamented, \u201cCovid had shut down our businesses. Schools were closed. We were robbed of so much.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t Covid that issued the shutdown edicts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We were robbed by politicians like Biden who blighted lives in a futile effort to thwart a virus. There was never solid evidence to justify lockdowns but that didn&#39;t stop politicians from promising to save humanity by destroying freedom.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MsaXrRUr5T\">https:\/\/t.co\/MsaXrRUr5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1623726466050424833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0We were robbed by politicians like Biden who disrupted lives in a futile effort to thwart a virus that infected hundreds of millions of Americans anyhow. There was never solid evidence to justify shutting businesses or schools but that did not deter politicians from promising to save humanity by destroying freedom.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Pfizer and Moderna, Biden was perhaps the biggest Covid profiteer in America. In 2020, Biden ran one of the most fear-based presidential campaigns in modern history. Biden talked as if every American family had lost a member or two from this pestilence. He routinely exaggerated Covid death tolls by a hundred- or a thousand-fold, publicly asserting that millions of Americans had been killed by Covid-19. Biden was helped mightily by fear-mongering media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>A Brookings Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/how-misinformation-is-distorting-covid-policies-and-behaviors\/\">analysis<\/a> noted, \u201cDemocrats are much more likely than Republicans to overestimate [Covid] harm. Forty-one percent of Democrats\u2026 answered that half or more of those infected by COVID-19 need to be hospitalized.\u201d At that time, the rate of hospitalization was between 1 percent and 5 percent \u2013 so those Democratic voters overestimated the risk of hospitalization by up to 20-fold.<\/p>\n<p>In the final debate between the presidential candidates in October 2020, Biden blamed Trump for every Covid fatality: \u201c220,000 Americans dead\u2026. Anyone who\u2019s responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States.\u201d Biden promised, \u201cI will take care of this. I will end this. I\u2019m going to shut down the virus, not the country.\u201d In a speech on the day before Election Day, he declared, \u201cWe\u2019re going to beat this virus. We\u2019re going to get it under control, I promise you.\u201d Biden won the presidency as a result of only 43,000 votes in three swing states. The disruption and damage caused by lockdowns were invoked as proof of Trump\u2019s negligence, rather than seen as evidence of an unprecedented political panic-mongering and repression.<\/p>\n<p>After taking office, Biden issued a flurry of edicts, including mandating masks for anyone on federal property. In September 2021, he mandated that more than 100 million be injected with Covid vaccines, despite proliferating evidence that the vaccines were failing to prevent transmission or infections. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/se\/date\/2021-10-21\/segment\/01\">October 2021<\/a> CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R8R2545fHCo\">Town Hall<\/a>, Biden vilified vaccine skeptics as murderers who only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you\u201d with Covid.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Biden announced, \u201cCovid no longer controls our lives.\u201d But Biden extended the official Covid emergency at least until May 11, entitling him to sweeping additional power. Biden still claims that Covid miraculously entitles him to \u201cforgive\u201d half a trillion dollars in federal student debt. And the Biden administration is fighting to perpetuate vaccine mandates on foreign visitors to America and to preserve the president\u2019s prerogative to impose mask mandates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never forget how Biden painted the unvaccinated as public enemies.  In an October 2021 CNN Town Hall, Biden vilified vaccine skeptics as murderers who only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you\u201d with Covid. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MsaXrRUr5T\">https:\/\/t.co\/MsaXrRUr5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1623733521721196544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The carnage from Covid crackdowns is still being tabulated. A 2022 Johns Hopkins University <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/iae\/files\/2022\/01\/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf?utm_campaign=CHL%3A%20Daily%20Edition&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=202695972&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9AyEV84NbuVlb6SM3yvEwxvxayA_l8CN-gNyqGhJbxkjpF2rSj3llruT95QeKTJ5cYEXmpV9TZz_sBogXgxDdsCKR9lg&amp;utm_content=202695972&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">analysis<\/a> of 24 studies on the impact of lockdowns in the United States and Europe found \u201cno evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality.\u201d The pointless shutdowns did far more damage than Biden will ever admit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A National Bureau of Economic Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w30104\/w30104.pdf\">analysis<\/a> estimated that young Americans suffered \u201c171,000 excess non-Covid deaths during 2020 and 2021\u2026 a historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency.\u201d Many of those fatalities were \u201ccollateral damage\u201d from shutdowns and other Covid policies.<\/li>\n<li>Millions of jobs were lost thanks to lockdowns, a major reason why life expectancy in the United States had its sharpest plunge since World War Two.<\/li>\n<li>Forced isolation was a Grim Reaper. Deaths from drug overdoses set an all-time record of 108,000 in 2021 and alcohol-related deaths jumped 25% in the first year of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The Biden administration suppressed free speech on Twitter and other social media based on a single theme: \u201cBe very afraid of Covid and do exactly what we say to stay safe,\u201d as journalist David Zweig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/david-zweig-on-twitters-rigging-the-covid-debate\/\">summarized<\/a> in the TwitterFiles. Official fear-mongering helped boost the percentage of Americans reporting struggling with depression or anxiety by more than 300 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If Biden can shift blame for disastrous Covid policies, politicians will be more likely to pointlessly lock down the nation in the future. Americans deserve to see all the federal records and all the state government records to expose the recklessness and deceit that permeated Covid policies. America will not recover from the pandemic until all the COVID lies and abuses by officialdom have been exposed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid Robbers as Victims? By James Bovard \u00a0 February 9, 2023 \u00a0 Policy In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Biden rewrote the history of the pandemic. Biden lamented, \u201cCovid had shut down our businesses. Schools were closed. 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