Belatedly acknowledging that many Americans are angry about having been subjected to 32 months of destructive lockdowns/school closures, mask mandates, testing and injections (“LSMTVs”), The Atlantic recently published a short essay by Emily Oster, a college professor who urges that “we forgive one another for mistakes made during the past 32 months.”
She’s part of the intellectual class of grandiose narcissists is all. The entire world revolves around her feelings and over fed ego. Her essay was simply a virtual signal to all those in academia, that suffer the same egomania as herself. She’s telling them, hey, even though we were dead wrong about the shamdemic by every verifiable measure, we’re the good people here, we’re the smart people. We deserve amnesty, because we did what we thought was right,and that’s all that matters. Unfortunately, all she did was stir up the emotions of the rational masses. Stirred up all the bad memories for those that got destroyed over these last 3 years. Her essay was actually just what we needed, it’s allowed us to put a new spot light on the all the hateful, hurtful, rhetoric these coronamaniacs spewed with there righteous indignation.
I live in France and we went through the same horror here, including a president who declared he wanted to “shit on the non vaccinated until the end” (it is the real meaning of the verb he used “emmerder”).
I will never forgive and never forget! Politicians, pseudo TV experts, artists. No one!
Look who owns the Atlantic and it all makes sense. Oster is just another globalist shill.
What we have all endured over the past 3 years is one of the largest cases of Narcissistic abuse ever. For those not familiar with it, look up the many books on Amazon on NA and on tactics of emotional manipulation/mind control. Also Richard Grannon on youtube has excellent stuff on NA. He was very clever during the scamdemic to never actually mention it by name while describing what was going on.
The latest phase of their abuse is Gaslighting...ie pretending it didn't happen. Narcissistic abusers specialize in 'Crazy Making'. Don't fall for their trap and NEVER fight them. That just gives them emotional supply. They're emotional vampires and feed on any form of attention.
You MUST go gray and disconnect from them in every aspect of your life.
I think her effort is mostly attention-hunger and virtue-signalling. There's no contrition, and no awareness of the tremendous harms she and her tribe demanded. She might, however, be conscious of political backlash that's been building. Maybe she's hoping to help Democrats in the upcoming elections.
Nov 4, 2022·edited Nov 4, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie
What gets me is when she says at the outset, "We didn't know. "
Simply put, you didn't know because any dissenting voices - and there were plenty - were censored!!
I know many people who toed the party line because of who they listened to, and any dispute was some right wing tinfoil hat conspiracy. The powers that be in the mainstream media determined what they would hear and they didn't listen to anyone else.
Oster didn't write this essay for us. She wrote it for people like herself, who disagreed with her on a few details. (Note that she's still promoting gene therapy.)
It's also important to make a distinction between (1) people who had (or at least claimed to have) relevant expertise, (2) decision makers, and (3) people who had neither but pushed for one or another set of policies, despite not having any formal decision making power. The first two groups absolutely do need to be held accountable, at least professionally (and possibly criminally, depending on just how egregious it was). The last group (to which most of us belong) is trickier. What are you going to do about Emily Oster? She wrote some pretty idiotic tweets, and has now produced an idiotic essay, but that's not a crime, is it? For those of us in the third group, it mostly came down to how much trust we had in the authorities and whether we bothered to look for alternative sources of information.
Now, ask yourself this: why would you look for alternative sources of information? If you happened to have relevant expertise, then you might have been able to see that the policies being pushed were completely idiotic. But what if, like most of us, you lacked any such expertise? You might be a naturally suspicious person, but probably, it was simply because you kind of expect the authorities to lie to you. I know I do (I grew up in a post-communist country, and so I have pretty extensive experience with that sort of thing). But the thing is, people like Emily Oster don't. She's a rule follower, and she's been richly rewarded for it. Probably, her entire social circle consists of people very much like her. So, it simply never occurred to her just how deeply the rot ran. (To be honest, I was surprised by the extent of the rot, too. And I never trusted those people to begin with!) And even now, she hasn't noticed the rot. She's just noticed some "mistakes," especially those that affected her and her family directly (such as school closures), but she thinks those are just details, and lookee, we shouldn't get so mad about a missed little detail here or there, right? So, that's why she wrote the essay. And she probably considers people like you and me to be nutjobs to be neutralized.
These "apologies" are starting to bubble to the surface and all at the same time. This is not a coincidence. Clowns like Oster don't just "think this up" on their own. They are tasked to float these trial balloons by PR firms to gauge public sentiment.
This is just the opening salvo in a PR campaign we will likely see over and over again. Most likely this represents testing the rhetoric to determine which phrasing is the most persuasive and effective for gaslighting the population.
It is a disgrace to even be having this discussion at this time. But what else would you expect from narcissistic scumbags?
Further, the perpetrators do not get to decide anything about "sorry" , it is the victims who determine when and if forgiveness is appropriate.
I am personally engaged on a regular basis with numerous victims of various Covid medical murders, for but one example, and I can assure not one of these individuals is thinking about "sorry" they are all seeking justice for the murder of their loved one. I can further attest to the fact that universally they are repulsed by this notion at this point in time.
This is not even an apology, it is more gaslighting. The only thing that should be discussed right now is justice for the crimes that were committed across all sectors of society.
These crimes are still being committed on a daily basis. Millions were killed and millions more have had their lives permanently marred.
'Sorry' ain't gonna cut it.
This notion of "sorry" has gotten to the point of being pathological. To even suggest such a thing at this point is a disgrace and an insult to the millions who have had their lives destroyed forever and the millions who were killed.
Forgiveness of the criminals who have destroyed the lives of an entire generation of children can in fact be problematic. I don't believe we should even be in a conversation about "forgiveness" at this point- we need justice.
Without that these ghouls will do this again and again- they are already planning on it.
"Oops we killed 15 million people and implemented a mass surveillance control grid. Will you please forgive us? If you do, we will give you extra mealworm cupcakes."
I'm of the opinion that there were no mistakes made. This was deliberate and calculated.
I've worked in healthcare for nearly 25 years. I am not a clinician but I'm surrounded by them daily. To see them eschew everything they've learned and known over the course of their careers was appalling to say the least. The only explanation for this is either malice or profound incompetence. Neither of which is very comforting. I subtlety questioned some of them in the hopes a lightbulb would go off in their brains, but to no avail. In regard to the ridiculous three-feet tall plastic barriers with one-inch gaps in between the panels, I said "would you converse with an active TB patient with the same protection in place?" "No" was the answer. Really? This was the plague to end humanity and that was enough protection?
I was also horrified at seeing the population willingly comply with lockdowns and mask mandates. I was sure no one would stand for such a thing. Boy, was I wrong. Thinking about it for any length of time still sends chills down my spine. These are measures we've never undertaken for anything else and were so absolutely foreign to us, yet way too many acted as if this was all normal operating procedure. We have been advised at at any time in the past (at least I haven't) to mask to prevent any airborne communicable infection. A question to ask mask advocates is "we were never advised to do this before, so are they lying now or were they negligent in the past?"
Don't even get me started on the egregious and invasive "vaccine" mandates, some of which still stand and have been given blessing by the Supreme Court (healthcare workers). It is akin to rape and is completely unacceptable.
This has been and continues to be a heinous conspiracy. I don't say these things lightly and I don't want them to be true, but I can come to no other conclusion. I truly believe there will be no formal accountability for these awful monsters who perpetrated this crime against humanity. However, moving forward, laws and even perhaps Constitutional amendments need to be put in place so that they never happen again.
Excellent analysis as usual Mark. I always look forward to your thoughtful pieces.
“Covid intervention damage was just misapplied earnestness.” I want to talk about this sentence.
I have a lot of conversations with people about what this Covid ‘thing’ is really about. There’s some selection bias in that I have a circle (I hope it’s not an echo chamber) of friends who hold similar views to my own. Like your own experience, some people who were friends or at least people who might enjoy conversations with me and me them no longer are.
But I also engage with people who disagree with me. I try to have rational conversations that lead to better understanding. I try to present the arguments that support my position but I also attempt to understand what drives others to hold alternative views. I am starting to see those who disagreed with me for the last two plus years adopt similar (to the jersey switchers) approaches to the crumbling narrative. In short, a “they did the best they could given what they knew” post justification.
For all the reasons set out countlessly we know that this is nonsense. But it is the soft middle ground to which people would prefer to retreat when the game is up. It’s better than the alternative which is to admit that the entire Covid theatre was intentional.
Let us not allow the excuse of ill judged good intentions or simple ignorance or incompetence become established in society because it most definitely was not this. Whether it was eugenics or ongoing preparation for the transition to centralised control of the world is a topic for another time but it absolutely was not unintentional.
Was it just the people at the top? No, that excuse is not going to fly either. There has been expedient complicity through multiple societal tiers throughout the entire period. As an example, qualified doctors who parroted the well worn “safe and effective” advice to innocent patients could not have been ignorant of this untruthfulness. I use this example from my own personal experience after extensive, polite, interrogation of doctors. These discussions have been instructive since they ultimately proved that they would hold the corporate line despite their personal beliefs. If a doctor can live with this betrayal of conscience how much easier can it be for all of the other incentivised bureaucrats, advisors, activists, politicians and media to do the same.
This is and always has been intentional and it is nowhere close to being over.
Yes, we knew. The CMO of Italy came out very early and stated that the average age of people dying of Covid was 86 and had 3 or 4 comorbidities. THEY KNEW, but seized the opportunity to cause destruction unseen in world history.
But I will assign just as much blame to people (in Canada, that was most of them) who just rolled over and joined the terror. It is the responsibility for individuals to seek the truth wherever it can be found, but they put on the brown shirts of the government-media propagandists and did so gladly. They joined the mob and I can never see them as anything else ever again. They were not made into monsters, they were revealed as monsters.
Amnesty is for groups who have committed crimes. Admit the crimes, apologize deeply and acknowledge every type of mistake openly, offer us some form of compensation, and take ironclad steps to ensure this cannot ever happen again. Then I'll think about amnesty, but not before.
about ten years ago, an alcoholic acquaintance of mine (not a close friend, just a loose business acquaintance) went on a bender and harassed me for weeks with whining phone calls about the train wreck her life was and begged me to let her stay at my house. i stopped taking her calls, and then she left a long, tearful phone message saying "... we BOTH made mistakes, let's let put it all behind us..." i had nothing to apologise for, and her attempt to dissolve her own responsibility in the waters of "shared remorse" told me pretty much everything i needed to know. i never called her back and haven't heard from her since.
emily oster's plea reminded me of this. emily's apology is not sincere. she (and those she's speaking for) do not comprehend what they have done, are unwilling to face it, and will not change their ways. they cannot be trusted to set policy, give advice or make assessments on anything of importance. the only ones worthy of respect will be those who understand and accept this. the "emilys" should humbly resign from their professional positions or be fired.
Nov 4, 2022·edited Nov 4, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie
I want justice, retribution and assurances that none of this will ever be tried again. It will never happen. Emily, the mandaters, the “experts”, the media and Hollywood shills deserve ostracism from civil society.
Seeing that this essay came from The Atlantic, one of the worst of the worst for real covid truth, I'd guess that its really the Atlantic asking for forgiveness with Oster as their mouthpiece. Number six in your list says it all. They aren't sorry for anything. I still read that the Peoples Republics of Canada and California want to bring back mask mandates and I'm sure, more shot mandates. They've learned nothing and aren't looking for truth.
She’s part of the intellectual class of grandiose narcissists is all. The entire world revolves around her feelings and over fed ego. Her essay was simply a virtual signal to all those in academia, that suffer the same egomania as herself. She’s telling them, hey, even though we were dead wrong about the shamdemic by every verifiable measure, we’re the good people here, we’re the smart people. We deserve amnesty, because we did what we thought was right,and that’s all that matters. Unfortunately, all she did was stir up the emotions of the rational masses. Stirred up all the bad memories for those that got destroyed over these last 3 years. Her essay was actually just what we needed, it’s allowed us to put a new spot light on the all the hateful, hurtful, rhetoric these coronamaniacs spewed with there righteous indignation.
I live in France and we went through the same horror here, including a president who declared he wanted to “shit on the non vaccinated until the end” (it is the real meaning of the verb he used “emmerder”).
I will never forgive and never forget! Politicians, pseudo TV experts, artists. No one!
Again...another outstanding piece.
Look who owns the Atlantic and it all makes sense. Oster is just another globalist shill.
What we have all endured over the past 3 years is one of the largest cases of Narcissistic abuse ever. For those not familiar with it, look up the many books on Amazon on NA and on tactics of emotional manipulation/mind control. Also Richard Grannon on youtube has excellent stuff on NA. He was very clever during the scamdemic to never actually mention it by name while describing what was going on.
The latest phase of their abuse is Gaslighting...ie pretending it didn't happen. Narcissistic abusers specialize in 'Crazy Making'. Don't fall for their trap and NEVER fight them. That just gives them emotional supply. They're emotional vampires and feed on any form of attention.
You MUST go gray and disconnect from them in every aspect of your life.
Oster: Hey neighbor, I think we need to let bygones be bygones.
We: So, you’re gonna stop shooting my dogs and trying to run over my cats in the street?
Oster: Nah, I didn’t say that. I just think we oughta, you know, forgive each other.
We: But I didn’t do anything.
Oster: Yeah, I know. But you *could’ve* done some stuff to me - even tho you didn’t.
We: So you’re gonna stop shooting at my house, and trying to get my company to fire me?
Oster: Oh no - I’m still gonna keep doing that. Just stay inside, and don’t post any misinformation.
I think her effort is mostly attention-hunger and virtue-signalling. There's no contrition, and no awareness of the tremendous harms she and her tribe demanded. She might, however, be conscious of political backlash that's been building. Maybe she's hoping to help Democrats in the upcoming elections.
What gets me is when she says at the outset, "We didn't know. "
Simply put, you didn't know because any dissenting voices - and there were plenty - were censored!!
I know many people who toed the party line because of who they listened to, and any dispute was some right wing tinfoil hat conspiracy. The powers that be in the mainstream media determined what they would hear and they didn't listen to anyone else.
Oster didn't write this essay for us. She wrote it for people like herself, who disagreed with her on a few details. (Note that she's still promoting gene therapy.)
It's also important to make a distinction between (1) people who had (or at least claimed to have) relevant expertise, (2) decision makers, and (3) people who had neither but pushed for one or another set of policies, despite not having any formal decision making power. The first two groups absolutely do need to be held accountable, at least professionally (and possibly criminally, depending on just how egregious it was). The last group (to which most of us belong) is trickier. What are you going to do about Emily Oster? She wrote some pretty idiotic tweets, and has now produced an idiotic essay, but that's not a crime, is it? For those of us in the third group, it mostly came down to how much trust we had in the authorities and whether we bothered to look for alternative sources of information.
Now, ask yourself this: why would you look for alternative sources of information? If you happened to have relevant expertise, then you might have been able to see that the policies being pushed were completely idiotic. But what if, like most of us, you lacked any such expertise? You might be a naturally suspicious person, but probably, it was simply because you kind of expect the authorities to lie to you. I know I do (I grew up in a post-communist country, and so I have pretty extensive experience with that sort of thing). But the thing is, people like Emily Oster don't. She's a rule follower, and she's been richly rewarded for it. Probably, her entire social circle consists of people very much like her. So, it simply never occurred to her just how deeply the rot ran. (To be honest, I was surprised by the extent of the rot, too. And I never trusted those people to begin with!) And even now, she hasn't noticed the rot. She's just noticed some "mistakes," especially those that affected her and her family directly (such as school closures), but she thinks those are just details, and lookee, we shouldn't get so mad about a missed little detail here or there, right? So, that's why she wrote the essay. And she probably considers people like you and me to be nutjobs to be neutralized.
These "apologies" are starting to bubble to the surface and all at the same time. This is not a coincidence. Clowns like Oster don't just "think this up" on their own. They are tasked to float these trial balloons by PR firms to gauge public sentiment.
This is just the opening salvo in a PR campaign we will likely see over and over again. Most likely this represents testing the rhetoric to determine which phrasing is the most persuasive and effective for gaslighting the population.
It is a disgrace to even be having this discussion at this time. But what else would you expect from narcissistic scumbags?
Further, the perpetrators do not get to decide anything about "sorry" , it is the victims who determine when and if forgiveness is appropriate.
I am personally engaged on a regular basis with numerous victims of various Covid medical murders, for but one example, and I can assure not one of these individuals is thinking about "sorry" they are all seeking justice for the murder of their loved one. I can further attest to the fact that universally they are repulsed by this notion at this point in time.
This is not even an apology, it is more gaslighting. The only thing that should be discussed right now is justice for the crimes that were committed across all sectors of society.
These crimes are still being committed on a daily basis. Millions were killed and millions more have had their lives permanently marred.
'Sorry' ain't gonna cut it.
This notion of "sorry" has gotten to the point of being pathological. To even suggest such a thing at this point is a disgrace and an insult to the millions who have had their lives destroyed forever and the millions who were killed.
Forgiveness of the criminals who have destroyed the lives of an entire generation of children can in fact be problematic. I don't believe we should even be in a conversation about "forgiveness" at this point- we need justice.
Without that these ghouls will do this again and again- they are already planning on it.
"Oops we killed 15 million people and implemented a mass surveillance control grid. Will you please forgive us? If you do, we will give you extra mealworm cupcakes."
No thanks.
Totally agree. No forgiveness without contrition. Which will not be coming. So.
I'm of the opinion that there were no mistakes made. This was deliberate and calculated.
I've worked in healthcare for nearly 25 years. I am not a clinician but I'm surrounded by them daily. To see them eschew everything they've learned and known over the course of their careers was appalling to say the least. The only explanation for this is either malice or profound incompetence. Neither of which is very comforting. I subtlety questioned some of them in the hopes a lightbulb would go off in their brains, but to no avail. In regard to the ridiculous three-feet tall plastic barriers with one-inch gaps in between the panels, I said "would you converse with an active TB patient with the same protection in place?" "No" was the answer. Really? This was the plague to end humanity and that was enough protection?
I was also horrified at seeing the population willingly comply with lockdowns and mask mandates. I was sure no one would stand for such a thing. Boy, was I wrong. Thinking about it for any length of time still sends chills down my spine. These are measures we've never undertaken for anything else and were so absolutely foreign to us, yet way too many acted as if this was all normal operating procedure. We have been advised at at any time in the past (at least I haven't) to mask to prevent any airborne communicable infection. A question to ask mask advocates is "we were never advised to do this before, so are they lying now or were they negligent in the past?"
Don't even get me started on the egregious and invasive "vaccine" mandates, some of which still stand and have been given blessing by the Supreme Court (healthcare workers). It is akin to rape and is completely unacceptable.
This has been and continues to be a heinous conspiracy. I don't say these things lightly and I don't want them to be true, but I can come to no other conclusion. I truly believe there will be no formal accountability for these awful monsters who perpetrated this crime against humanity. However, moving forward, laws and even perhaps Constitutional amendments need to be put in place so that they never happen again.
Excellent analysis as usual Mark. I always look forward to your thoughtful pieces.
“Covid intervention damage was just misapplied earnestness.” I want to talk about this sentence.
I have a lot of conversations with people about what this Covid ‘thing’ is really about. There’s some selection bias in that I have a circle (I hope it’s not an echo chamber) of friends who hold similar views to my own. Like your own experience, some people who were friends or at least people who might enjoy conversations with me and me them no longer are.
But I also engage with people who disagree with me. I try to have rational conversations that lead to better understanding. I try to present the arguments that support my position but I also attempt to understand what drives others to hold alternative views. I am starting to see those who disagreed with me for the last two plus years adopt similar (to the jersey switchers) approaches to the crumbling narrative. In short, a “they did the best they could given what they knew” post justification.
For all the reasons set out countlessly we know that this is nonsense. But it is the soft middle ground to which people would prefer to retreat when the game is up. It’s better than the alternative which is to admit that the entire Covid theatre was intentional.
Let us not allow the excuse of ill judged good intentions or simple ignorance or incompetence become established in society because it most definitely was not this. Whether it was eugenics or ongoing preparation for the transition to centralised control of the world is a topic for another time but it absolutely was not unintentional.
Was it just the people at the top? No, that excuse is not going to fly either. There has been expedient complicity through multiple societal tiers throughout the entire period. As an example, qualified doctors who parroted the well worn “safe and effective” advice to innocent patients could not have been ignorant of this untruthfulness. I use this example from my own personal experience after extensive, polite, interrogation of doctors. These discussions have been instructive since they ultimately proved that they would hold the corporate line despite their personal beliefs. If a doctor can live with this betrayal of conscience how much easier can it be for all of the other incentivised bureaucrats, advisors, activists, politicians and media to do the same.
This is and always has been intentional and it is nowhere close to being over.
Que tengas un buen fin de semana Mark.
Yes, we knew. The CMO of Italy came out very early and stated that the average age of people dying of Covid was 86 and had 3 or 4 comorbidities. THEY KNEW, but seized the opportunity to cause destruction unseen in world history.
But I will assign just as much blame to people (in Canada, that was most of them) who just rolled over and joined the terror. It is the responsibility for individuals to seek the truth wherever it can be found, but they put on the brown shirts of the government-media propagandists and did so gladly. They joined the mob and I can never see them as anything else ever again. They were not made into monsters, they were revealed as monsters.
Amnesty is for groups who have committed crimes. Admit the crimes, apologize deeply and acknowledge every type of mistake openly, offer us some form of compensation, and take ironclad steps to ensure this cannot ever happen again. Then I'll think about amnesty, but not before.
Oster didn't really define her terms. Amnesty is not the same as forgiveness. Anger is not the same as argument.
I still see her pressing a dimple into her cheek, though, and saying "Whoopsie! Sorry! Can we still be friends?"
about ten years ago, an alcoholic acquaintance of mine (not a close friend, just a loose business acquaintance) went on a bender and harassed me for weeks with whining phone calls about the train wreck her life was and begged me to let her stay at my house. i stopped taking her calls, and then she left a long, tearful phone message saying "... we BOTH made mistakes, let's let put it all behind us..." i had nothing to apologise for, and her attempt to dissolve her own responsibility in the waters of "shared remorse" told me pretty much everything i needed to know. i never called her back and haven't heard from her since.
emily oster's plea reminded me of this. emily's apology is not sincere. she (and those she's speaking for) do not comprehend what they have done, are unwilling to face it, and will not change their ways. they cannot be trusted to set policy, give advice or make assessments on anything of importance. the only ones worthy of respect will be those who understand and accept this. the "emilys" should humbly resign from their professional positions or be fired.
I want justice, retribution and assurances that none of this will ever be tried again. It will never happen. Emily, the mandaters, the “experts”, the media and Hollywood shills deserve ostracism from civil society.
Seeing that this essay came from The Atlantic, one of the worst of the worst for real covid truth, I'd guess that its really the Atlantic asking for forgiveness with Oster as their mouthpiece. Number six in your list says it all. They aren't sorry for anything. I still read that the Peoples Republics of Canada and California want to bring back mask mandates and I'm sure, more shot mandates. They've learned nothing and aren't looking for truth.