From Tom Woods today (I've included the promo urls... also, my
bold):
Today instead of sharing more COVID charts I want to share something from someone in my private group.
Before I do that, a reminder: yesterday I shared with you my latest free eBook, COVID Charts CNN Forgot. It takes a lot of what I've been saying but instead being spread out over weeks' worth of emails, it's all in one convenient place:
http://www.ChartsTheyForgot.comPicking up a copy of that free eBook at the link above also adds you to my email list (which you're on already if you're reading this, so that part won't have any effect for you), but if you have friends who belong on this list because they're desperate for truth, please forward ChartsTheyForgot.com to them, with my thanks.
Now, for what I want to share today.
Someone introduced himself to my private group, the Tom Woods Show Elite, this week with the following:
Last year my daughter Abigail was born a few days before the lockdowns started in Massachusetts. She was diagnosed with an incredibly rare genetic disorder called CHARGE syndrome (a little less than 1 in 100,000), which has a 40% survival rate. Once the lockdowns kicked in it was literally illegal for me and my wife to see or be by our preemie daughter, who was convulsing in painful uncontrollable spasms for months, and on the brink of death.
Eventually the lockdowns "relaxed" so one of us could visit our daughter once daily for a generous two hours. I cannot put into words how traumatic it is to have a daily conversation with your wife about who gets to spend the potentially last day ever with your baby girl. Thankfully she survived after multiple surgeries, but is blind (compared to death that is a blessing). However, developmental services for special needs children in Massachusetts have been deemed a "nonessential service."
We have been lucky to have secured some in-person OT visits with our daughter, but it has been criminally illegal in our state to have critical in-person visits with developmental specialists to help our daughter overcome challenges associated with her disabilities. She is months behind and will face permanent developmental delays because of the lockdowns set forth by our lovely Republican governor.
I joined this legendary group to share my personal COVID tragedy, which is unfortunately one of millions, to a sympathetic group of like-minded individuals. I'm finishing up my public health PhD at [institution removed by TW], and am a political science professor at a state school up in Massachusetts, so I'm sure you can imagine how I'm surrounded by COVID doomers 24/7. Tom Woods literally gave me the strength to look death straight in the eye last year and overcome it, so I will be forever grateful.This is indeed a tragedy, albeit one that could have been even worse.
The COVID monomania has had the effect of erasing these tragedies from the public's attention. All that matters is COVID.And there are lesser tragedies, too. Kids prevented from socializing. Widespread impoverishment. Neighbors pitted against neighbors. Businesses that people poured their lives into, destroyed. Depression, alcoholism and drug abuse, and suicide, all up -- everyone knows it.
And if you say my life has been devastated by all this, you will be shamed. You must want people to die because you're capable of thinking about tradeoffs and aren't consumed by monomania.
The whole social shaming thing is taking place at a fifth-grade level. It should embarrass the people doing it, but
they seem incapable of embarrassment.
And to think these people have the nerve to tell us we're in this together.
I'll tell you who's in it together:
the rational people who have been shamed by superstitious and terrified fools, and who have had their lives turned upside down, and even ruined, for no good reason.
Or just the folks who haven't bought into the crazy, pointless theater, as they watch in horror as tens of millions of their countrymen fall in line behind the biggest public-health disaster in U.S. history.
Those people -- you and I, in other words -- are in it together.
The Tom Woods Show Elite is where we normal people hang out, and learn from and support each other.
I look forward to welcoming another normal person (that's you):
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