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Jeff barton's avatar

The word emergency means different things to different people. To those who seek political power an emergency is an opportunity to gain power that would not otherwise be granted. According to this understanding, the covid emergency was handled effectively and allowed expanded government power to spend money, regulate the behavior of its subjects, to censor inconvenient speech, transfer wealth and change election law to favor the party in power. To the authors of the Barrington Declaration, it was an opportunity to put forth a set of recommendations based on experience in controlling infectious disease. Read the Barrington Declaration today and it rings true. Read the recommendations of the CDC and they were all wrong. Yet our government and the WHO seek to expand their censorship powers in the name of public health to prevent dangerous misinformation. In retrospect we know that the very powers that would police our speech were the ones spreading misinformation. But if this is viewed not as a public health measure but as a power consolidation then it all makes sense. The WHO does not care about your health. The CDC does not care about your health. The US government does not care about your health. They do care very much about maintaining and expanding their power over you.

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Peggy's avatar

I pray that we are spared another minute with the sniffer and his idiotic ideas. America will fall if he remains in office.

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