There is no excusing the actions taken by the Covid commissars. They knew what they were doing was scientifically unsupported and in many cases unconstitutional. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
groovy gavin has been out on his apology/rebranding tour, likely in preparation for a run for the presidency. leaving aside that newsom is about as sincere as a scorpion about his contrition and would happily pivot back to calling the governors who fought to open their states murderers again the femtosecond he thought is was a net vote getter, this whole line of claims around “we’re all geniuses in hindsight” and “how could we have known?” rings not only odiously but dangerously false.
it’s a facile form of revisionism to excuse having acted horribly and abandoned science and sense alike.
and the pretense that “no one could have known” is flatly false.
it’s just political posturing to gaslight the unwary.
longtime gatopal™ newman states it perfectly.
his instantly infamous interview has some real whoppers in terms of self serving framings.
“I think we would’ve done everything differently,” Newsom said in a taped interview set to air on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
“I think all of us in terms of our collective wisdom, we’ve evolved. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. We’re experts in hindsight. We’re all geniuses now.”
sorry, but taking the world on a misadventure of unprecedented policy whose harms were obvious to anyone with two braincells to rub together and whose benefits were (at best) speculative and (in reality) known to be illusory and literally directly contra-indicated by 100 years of standing pandemic guidelines rooted in evidence based assessment is not “oopsie, we didn’t know what we didn’t know.” this is something altogether different.
