Source: https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/six-years-after-15-days-to-slow-the = = = It’s now been six full years since “15 Days to Slow the Spread” changed the world. In one of the worst policy decisions in US history, the expert class, led by Anthony Fauci, advised President Trump to shut down the country to stop a highly infectious respiratory virus. This decision was made in part due to misinformation from the World Health Organization, which had just breathlessly reported that 3.4% of people who got COVID would die. The actual number was closer to 0.25-0.35%, and highly age stratified. Off by just 93%, but who’s counting? China had claimed they’d stopped COVID in its tracks after posting videos of residents supposedly falling down dead on the street from a respiratory virus. Somehow, none of this prevented outsiders from trusting information coming out of China. 15 days turned into 30 days, which turned into 45 days, which turned into years of rolling lockdowns. A whole host of other unconstitutional policies followed; mask mandates, vaccine passports, 25% capacity limits, curfews, outdoor masking, double masking, triple masking, closing beaches, skate parks, and schools, there were visitation limits, on duty nurses performing choreographed TikTok dances while lecturing the public…you name it, we did it. Presumably, with all these restrictions, there would be some evidence or data showing that these policies had some level of effectiveness in reducing the most important metric: COVID-related deaths. Right? And yet, six years later, what do we have? Nothing. And zero accountability for the world-changing fallout that happened as a result.
