The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want to gloat. Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.

All of this gloating and defensiveness continues to gobble up a lot of social energy and to drive the culture wars, especially on the internet. These discussions are heated, unpleasant and, ultimately, unproductive. In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And, similarly, getting something wrong wasn’t a moral failing. Treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from moving forward.

We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge. Los Angeles County closed its beaches in summer 2020. Ex post facto, this makes no more sense than my family’s masked hiking trips. But we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go. We need to forgive the attacks, too. Because I thought schools should reopen and argued that kids as a group were not at high risk, I was called a “teacher killer” and a “génocidaire.” It wasn’t pleasant, but feelings were high. And I certainly don’t need to dissect and rehash that time for the rest of my days.

Moving on is crucial now, because the pandemic created many problems that we still need to solve.

Student test scores have shown historic declines, more so in math than in reading, and more so for students who were disadvantaged at the start. We need to collect data, experiment, and invest. Is high-dosage tutoring more or less cost-effective than extended school years? Why have some states recovered faster than others? We should focus on questions like these, because answering them is how we will help our children recover.

Many people have neglected their health care over the past several years. Notably, routine vaccination rates for children (for measles, pertussis, etc.) are way down. Rather than debating the role that messaging about COVID vaccines had in this decline, we need to put all our energy into bringing these rates back up. Pediatricians and public-health officials will need to work together on community outreach, and politicians will need to consider school mandates.

The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ss/671879/

Let’s just move on and pretend nothing happened. Let’s pretend that the people who stood up, spoke out, got fired, and suffered aren’t the only reason it ended. If these “let’s move on” people had their way, we’d still be locked down.

how about NO

After they treated people like traitors and criminals over their own stupidity.

How about FO

Oh no. We need to demonize them and have televised hearings to make sure everyone knows they stole our freedom, undermined democracy, and threatened the future of our children—-just because declaring anything an emergency gives these nut jobs more power. We need to subpoena everyone and get all the documents, emails, and texts so we know what they knew and when they knew it. Yes—we need a January6th style hearing—-and really—no democrats should really be involved in the hearing since they are the ones who ran around perpetrating these crimes against the nation. I suspect the next Congress might just take a look into this travesty—-because that’s how politics works now, right?

Yeah, I dont ******* think so...

(10-31-2022 12:41 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  How about FO

Like I'm so sure how forgiving the other side would be if they were right.

No, the only thing those people understand is a ball bat upside the head so I say give it to them.

Never forget.

(10-31-2022 01:50 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Never forget.

never forgive.

Translation: sorry, not sorry

(10-31-2022 01:26 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(10-31-2022 12:41 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  How about FO

It's absolutely true people should be investigated and executed if found guilty of crimes against humanity....



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This is a case where a conversation about reparations may be warranted.

Those DIRECTLY affected by the actions of these COVID numbskulls are alive and here and can benefit from those blatant attempts to control them. Reparations for actions of 200 years ago versus actions from 2 years ago.....


Oh yes, the author can suck a phat cok as well....

Could someone please distinguish The Atlantic from Pravda?

(10-31-2022 03:14 PM)Eldonabe Wrote:  This is a case where a conversation about reparations may be warranted.

Those DIRECTLY affected by the actions of these COVID numbskulls are alive and here and can benefit from those blatant attempts to control them. Reparations for actions of 200 years ago versus actions from 2 years ago.....


Oh yes, the author can suck a phat cok as well....

….don’t be surprised if he doesn’t do that already…

Who made the decision that the public health bureaucrats were the right folks to handle emergency response?

Kind of like deciding that Winnie the Poo and Eeyore should negotiate nuclear arms limitation treaties.

(10-31-2022 04:57 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Who made the decision that the public health bureaucrats were the right folks to handle emergency response?

Kind of like deciding that Winnie the Poo and Eeyore should negotiate nuclear arms limitation treaties.

muh media (who's owned by ... yeah, muh corpshites) ... isn't that some kinda special...