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No, Despite Being Wrong Since 2020, There's Been No COVID Reckoning In Politics

The Atlantic Deflects With More Reality Denial

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Ian Miller
Mar 27, 2025
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In a spectacular feat of reality-denying partisanship, the political left has convinced itself that they've somehow admitted wrongdoing on their extremist COVID policies. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be further from the truth.

As a reminder, the left, thanks in large part to Anthony Fauci, shut down businesses, schools, playgrounds, sports, and live events. They used curfews, capacity limits, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, created "tier system" reopening charts based on nothing, dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as a racist conspiracy theory, and labeled anyone who disagreed with them.

None of the politicians involved in this inexcusable, world-destroying, anti-science policy-making has apologized for any of it. Not one has admitted they were wrong. Fauci, a far-left politician himself, has not only never apologized or admitted wrongdoing, but had the audacity to say that criticisms of him and his policy positions were inexcusable criticisms of science itself.

The most that individuals like Gavin Newsom or other prominent members of the left will do is say that they didn't know at the time what we know now. Except, of course, that's also a complete lie.

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NFL: NFC Championship-Detroit Lions at San Francisco 49ers. Jan 28, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; California Governor Gavin Newsom attends the NFC Championship football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports

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