There have been some interesting apologetics appearing.
First there was this apology:
Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.
By Emily Oster
With the lack of genuine admission of specific guilt, this likely wouldn’t have fooled anyone here (also, it came out on Hallowe’en 
) but the conciliatory tone struck a chord with Dr Pierre Kory who tweeted it out. He realized he’d been hoodwinked when this rebuttal Dissecting the Deceptive Plea for COVID-19 Amnesty came out from the excellent though anonymous ‘A Mid Western Doctor’.
Back to the drawing board for the propagandists - must do better.
A better attempt appeared at the end of January - maybe these are going to become a quarterly event 
It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives | Opinion
This caused an intial sensation. A medical student holding the establishment to account?
Indeed, this part was eyecatching:
" I can see now that the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young. All of these were scientific mistakes at the time, not in hindsight. Amazingly, some of these obfuscations continue to the present day."
Leaving aside the description of the ‘scentific community’ as being somewhere between the CDC, the FDA and the WHO
Mistakes not just in hindsight; vaccine safety…wow.
The link on vaccine safety is to an article illustrating that any benefit of boosters for students is more than offset by harm, and that the supposed wider benefit in terms of transmission doesn’t really exist.
Quite good, but what about the adult population? What about the suppression of early treatments, the covering up of damage, the witch hunts against dissident doctors, the ongoing booster risks for everybody? Seems to be arguing just for the roughest edges to be planed.
And you might well wonder why a genuine message of concern did not spell these issues out rather than put them in a link that requres a bit of further probing.
That’s because he is still firmly in the vaccine camp:
" Instead, we have witnessed a massive and ongoing loss of life in America due to distrust of vaccines and the healthcare system;"
So…the vaccines are great if only we didn’t give them to the wrong people.
It would seem that the aim is to improve public trust in the medical leaders, ie those in power.
But this is a much better attempt, and here’s Pierre Kory again to prove it:
We All Got Fooled Again
I discovered that I, like so many of us, failed to see Newsweek’s “Scientific Community Apology” article published this week for exactly what is was - pure propaganda. Again. They just won’t stop.
Early treatment for propaganda pieces is important, and the Midwestern Doctor was quickly on it, responding within a few days:
Dissecting The New Plea for COVID Amnesty
TBH I’m not greatly keen on this either. It addresses the posturing of the propaganda piece, but doesn’t address the bald fact of the harms very directly, in terms of suppressing treatments for covid for the benefit of the vaccine-pushing industry, and then the vaccine harms. AMWD is well aware of the former, but you have to wade through a lot to get this, near the end:
“One of the core rules is that you cannot treat most viral infections (other than giving Tylenol to suppress the fevers the infections create—which is not a treatment for the infection and often significantly worsens it). If you think about this for a moment, it doesn’t make sense; people have very different responses to a viral infection, so it must be possible to do something to help those who get quite ill. Because this rule held throughout the pandemic, every single treatment that was brought forward for COVID-19 was blacklisted (I know now dozens of treatments that I am relatively certain are effective, including many I have personally used).”
So, early treatments work. Hold the rest of the article, and read it backwards.
This ‘blacklisting’ and witch-hunting extends to physicians and all medics and has led to a push for doctors to be reduced, when then powers decide, to mute pill and jab dispensers; with the powers - that ‘scientific community’ - being the corporate WHO. With dissent being more or less illegal.
It would have been most useful for this to be in the forefront. Maybe I missed it and it’s there somewhere, but that’s still the point.
But questions are now being asked about the author of the propaganda piece, Med student Kevin Bass, and why Newsnight ran with this story when qualified doctors can’t get a look in.
The battle-hardened Dr Meryl Nass asks who authorised it?
She comments:
Will the real Kevin Bass stand up? Who is the author of the Newsweek apologia?
Just a few tweets provides a lot of information. Thx again to A Midwestern Doctor for decoding his hogwash (or someone’s hogwash with his name appended to it) for us.
8 hr ago
“It seems he used to tweet about eugenics. He liked it”
This is Kevin Bass’s tweet:
“I don’t see how we can avoid eugenics in the 21st century. jobs for the less intelligent are scarcer and scarcer. big social problems on the horizon. what’s a credible response vs eugenics? people need meaning and purpose.”
Oh dear. But thanks for telling us! It’s Harari in a clean white coat.
Yes, the ‘less intelligent’ are always going to be a problem, when you focus on making the ‘more intelligent’ more ‘intelligent’ still.
Oh dear.
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