On behalf of fellow liberal establishmentarians, Emily Oster barks that they should be granted amnesty for the misery and destruction they inflicted in the name of Covid, on the grounds that they did not know any better. Not everybody is in a mood to forgive:

First, no, you don’t get to advocate policies that do extraordinary harm to others, against their wishes, then say, “We didn’t know any better at the time!” Ignorance doesn’t work as an excuse when the policies involved abrogating your fellow citizens’ rights under an indefinite state of emergency, while censoring and cancelling those who weren’t as ignorant.

Actually, they were not as ignorant as they pretend. There was plenty of evidence indicating that lockdowns and other mandates were not effective.

[T]he ultimate problem, from a legal perspective, with Oster’s call for “amnesty” for the advocacy of totalitarian policies during Covid [is] the implicit assumption that all those who advocated lockdowns, mandates, censorship and an indefinite state of emergency, all the way up the chain of command, did so in good faith. If those who advocated these policies are simply presumed to have done so out of well-meaning ignorance, then any inquiry into the many outstanding questions as to the origin of these policies – and the underlying motivations of highest-level officials who promulgated them – is foreclosed.

Forgiveness is usually a good policy where we find the three R’s of Remorse, Repair, and not Repeating the action. But here it seems progressives are only trying to escape the consequences of their behavior. There is no reason to believe they would not do the same or worse in the future, next time in the name of some other bugaboo, possibly the imaginary climate crisis.

Matt Walsh is in no mood to forgive:

Neither is Kari Lake; no wonder they fear her:

Most important is not to forget. The liberal establishment squandered the last of its credibility on Covid and now must rebuild it from scratch before being trusted with power.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Jester.

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