The article linked below should be extremely alarming to all of us.

• Did phony videos produced by Communist China cause a stampede by our “leaders” to actions which destroyed tens of thousands of businesses, created huge financial upheaval, consolidated power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and power-hungry politicians and harmed the educational options for a generation of youth?
• Did the “leaders” of German base their support of lockdowns, quarantine facilities, etc., based on clinical results from Communist China?
• Did a major Dutch agency determine that the cost of a lockdown would six times more than the benefit, but the Dutch government decided to go with lockdowns due to a fear of negative optics in the news?
• Using information from Chinese journals, did the WHO recommend a rush to ventilators which killed thousands of Westerners?
• When it was widely realized that the New Zealand Department of Health had based their recommendations based on information from Chinese journals, the references were deleted.

The common thread was that unverified reports and claims from Communist China were used by Western “scientist” and “leaders” to create public policies which were disastrous and non-effective. Where was the checking for accuracy, the due diligence that we should expect from those who handle the levers of power over our lives? As time goes on, will more revelations become known, and we ever hear one apology for massive public policy failures? Of course not, for being in government, and increasing it appears in science, means never having to say, “I’m sorry, I failed.” https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/masked-ball-cowardice