I Can Not Forgive Them Because...

 Wow.  That Emily Oster article at The Atlantic has hit a nerve. It is not surprising though, since so many many conservative and Chritian groups kept protesting that the actions taken by the government were without merit, only to be dismissed as crazy kooks and worse. We were accused of trying to kill our Leftist fellows.

First up today, is an article at the American Thinker by Paul Krause entited Democrats Declared War on Democracy Through COVID Tyranny.

We were not left in the dark at all. The media, Big Pharma, and Big Government all worked together to destroy our freedoms and ruin the lives of many Americans. Not because we didn’t know what COVID might do to us. But because we were emphatically told that these tyrannical policies of eliminating church services, closing down businesses, and trying to force a national vaccine mandate was going to save lives. There was no ambiguity in what was being promoted and for what reasons.

With inflation raging across the country, grocery bills skyrocketing, and an economy teetering on the brink of stagflation because of our asinine mishandling of COVID, we are also told that “democracy is on the ballot.” Of course, what about democracy and our rights and liberties during the COVID lockdowns? The destruction of democracy and the erosion of social trust was far more ruinous during the pandemic lockdowns than anything else.

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Some of us were sounding the alarms on COVID tyranny when it was first starting. Lockdown policies were never about saving lives but a test to see how many liberties and rights the government could take away without much pushback by the population. Fear is the main path tyrants take in trying to strip freedom from their citizens. Scare citizens enough and they will enslave themselves to whatever dictates the dear savior will come up with.

This is replaying itself as we approach the November 8 election. Democrats destroyed entire families through their COVID lockdown policies which eliminated businesses, put stress on homes, and harmed the intellectual development of children. Those are years that will be hard to recover, if at all.

COVID tyrants are hoping Americans forget their debacle in handling the pandemic and the tyranny that so many experienced because of it. Families were unable to visit loved ones. Churches were shut down, some never to reopen. Businesses, once staples and pillars of the community, suddenly vanished and are now vacant and rotting with overgrown weeds and mold.

Krause is quite explicit that whatever you call what was, and is happening, whether Communism, or Socialism, or Facscism, or old fashioned tyranny, all these totalitarian systems ultimately are expressions of the  Serpent from the Garden of Eden. The "Our Democracy" supposedly at stake in the coming midterms is not democracy, but the loss of power by those under the influence of the Evil One.  Pride and the desire for power mark them all as of the Devil

Which brings us to an article at Crisis Magazine by Kennedy Hall entitled Pandemic Amnesty? Not So Fast. Hall points out that the Leftists globalists deliberately did this to us, in hopes of breaking us. It was wrong and immoral.

In any case, the author of the piece then attempted to explain away the lunatic behavior she instilled in her child. “These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.”

It is that last line that bugs me. “We didn’t know.”

As the Irish say: malarkey!

Because, the information was out there. Most of it we have known since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919. It was readily available, but this was just too good a crisis to let go to waste. and since the Left does not believe in God, they have no moral scruples about doing anything to people if it gets them to go along. The media, of course, carrying the water for their Leftist masters, do not get a pass. Hall points to how this all played out in real time with Oster and her cohort:

So, it needs to be asked. Is she asking for amnesty from acting like an Orwellian nutjob, or is she asking for amnesty from being idiotic?

Of course, we should all forgive in a Christian sense; but amnesty is another thing.

I can forgive a murderer, but the murderer doesn’t get amnesty.

I can forgive an idiot—which is good because I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself, otherwise—but the idiot does not have amnesty from being an idiot.

But these people who want to simply move on without acknowledging they were not just wrong but insane believe that being scared because the TV told you to be scared justifies behavior that you don’t need to do penance for, even though you acted like a Hitlerian neophyte.

Make no mistake that there are some who did know, who actively sought a such a virus or worse, and who turned in loose on the public for ideological reasons. Those people should face serious consequences, as a penance. Then there are the media toadies who probably had the information, but ignored it to promote the Leftist agenda. They also should face at the very least a loss of their positions of power. As for Oster's claim that "we just didn't know," I would point out that in a court of law that would not fly. They could have known, had they read and used their critical thinking skills. Still, I would forgive Oster and her ilk if they would acknowledge their failure. But Pride, the cause of Lucifer's downfall, will prevent them from doing so. Therfore, I can not in good concience forgive.