An emissary from the leftist media came forward on Monday to request amnesty for all the arbitrary policies, disastrous decisions and irrational persecution in which they enthusiastically participated during the Covid pandemic.  An article in The Atlantic by Emily Oster attempts to bury the hatchet, torches and pitchforks wielded by the Covid zealots against anyone who questioned the validity of the state-sanctioned virus narrative during 2020-2022.  As you no doubt vividly recall, anyone who mentioned taboo topics like natural immunity, how Covid deaths were being counted, or asked how a paper napkin attached to your face with a rubber band protected you from a virus was immediately attacked as anti-science and accused of having a death wish for Grandma.  Now they’re extending their Purell-bathed hands for a peace-making fist bump while saying, “We cool? We cool now, Chief?” 

This water off a duck’s back approach may not be well received by people who quite literally had their lives and businesses destroyed by self important bureaucrats with good intentions. They claim innocence saying simply, “we didn’t know what we didn’t know” and to that I say exactly.  There was a lot we didn’t know in the beginning, but many people acted like they did know in an attempt to amass authority, the kind of which they could previously only dream.  Conversely, there was a lot we did know, but many in power ignored facts that didn’t fit their agenda or align with previously stated theories.  In the end, people who were forced to obey nonsensical decrees lost businesses, jobs and relationships thanks to the emotionally charged authoritarians leading the Covid cult.  Now the cultists want bygones to be bygones, saying, hey everyone makes mistakes, that’s why there are erasers on pencils, right?  Well, not so fast.

First, any genuine type of contrition involves admitting what you did wrong.  There is no specific mention of that in the article, nor is there an apology.  Instead it assumptively suggests that we were all equally guilty of involuntary offenses during the pandemic fog of war and that no one should feel too bad because we were all just trying to do what was right.  I couldn’t disagree with this sentiment more.  Some of us were in fact trying to do what was best for our families and communities.  Others were fixated on declaring themselves moral superiors, asserting their omnipotent authority and punishing anyone who dissented.  But let’s say for a moment this is a genuine peace-making attempt. Okay, to what are you admitting guilt and promising to sin no more?  Perhaps forcing toddlers to wear masks that obstructed their breathing?  Shutting down small businesses while keeping giant retailers open?  Keeping children isolated during their most formative years while it was evident they were in no serious danger?  Forcing  kids to wear masks while playing soccer outside in 90 degree heat?  Threatening to deny healthcare or schooling to someone who chose not to take an experimental vaccine?  Perhaps making nurses and firefighters decide between their paycheck and their medical autonomy?  Lying about a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and trying to exile the unvaxed with vaccine passports?  Or maybe in retrospect you just feel bad for all of the seniors who died alone because their loved ones were forbidden from seeing them.  

I could go on, but there is no point.  This is not a sincere olive branch.  This is an attempt to excuse all the abuses of authority and have people forget how wrong the so called experts were.  When the experts told us to ignore our common sense, intuition and high school science books and simply trust them because they knew better, they didn’t know better.  They were guessing and making arbitrary demands in an effort to appear omniscient and authoritative.  In most instances, masking was useless.  The vaccines never worked as advertised and the draconian shutdowns did untold damage to people’s lives, especially children.  I wish this was a genuine reflection of mistakes and an effort to learn for the future, but it isn’t and next time the same self-righteous tyrants will try to control your life because they see you as a domesticated animal and themselves as your master.  Question their authority and they will declare you an ignorant monster, but the citizens of this country remember who the real monsters were; the politicians who locked citizens down, forced them to wear obedience masks and mandated experimental medicine, as well as the media who peddled their divisive and destructive lies. 

So, regarding the left’s request for amnesty, I think that will be clearly answered on Election Day. In the immortal words of Doc Holiday, make no mistake, it won’t be revenge we’re after. It will be a reckoning.