Commentary
Emily Oster has a lot of nerve.
The Brown University professor has just published an article, called “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty”, in which she argues “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.”
The trouble with her suggestion is that, despite the fact that we are no longer “in the dark about COVID,” the pandemic fascism continues in many states. Despite falling case rates, ten states still have a COVID-19 Public Health Emergency in place. This includes California, whose politically ambitious governor, Gavin Newsom, has announced that he is keeping his emergency powers until February 2023. The national COVID-19 State of Emergency remains operative as well, even though the guy supposedly in charge, Joe Biden, has told us the pandemic is over. This means that any one of these states, or the entire country, could pivot back to lockdowns tomorrow….