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There's A New, Concerted Effort To Gaslight The Public Regarding What Exactly Took Place During COVID

No, the elites did not get COVID mostly right.

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Ian Miller
Apr 24, 2025
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It's easy in retrospect to understand what became one of the most insidious, harmful elements of our decision-making process during the COVID-19 pandemic: groupthink among a class of people who will never admit their own fallibility.

Call them what you want: experts, elites, intellectuals, politicians, the class of people who put themselves above others by virtue of their own sense of self-importance. They all ran riot over individual liberty, common sense, reasonable judgment and the scientific process during the pandemic.

In short, they managed to get almost everything wrong.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, there's been a more widespread acknowledgment that the elites disgraced themselves, at the least from outside those circles of groupthink that the intellectual class continues to run in. But within them there's a concerted effort to act as if the past five years didn't happen in the way they did. That with revisionist history and enough willful disregard for reality we can pretend as if the elites and experts did their jobs well, with honesty, inquiry and truth-seeking - instead of what actually happened.

Just ask them.

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