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Vaccination Updates
COVID-19: PURSUING TRUTH TO PROTECT OUR LIBERTIES
By Kendall Nelson, Director, The Greater Good
Each evening at the same time, the small are free to come and go in the moment. After Never before
town in which I live comes alive with a sym- all, our liberties have never been more at risk. have we
phony of howling. This howling comes not from
wolves, but from people who wish to express PANIC THROUGH EXAGGERATION quarantined
their gratitude for those on the front lines in The majority of those who contract SARS- healthy
our county, which initially experienced more CoV-2 experience mild or no symptoms. Despite people, nor
purported cases of Covid-19 per capita than this fact, “experts” elicited panic and ultimately
any other place in the nation. The howling is a control by exaggerating fatality numbers at the have we
salute to workers supplying essential services— start of the outbreak. made a
including medical professionals, grocery store On March 16, 2020, Neil Ferguson, a math- judgment
cashiers and mail carriers—at a time when ematical epidemiologist at the Imperial College
residents have been ordered to stay at home and of London, published a paper explaining his use about which
wait out the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. of computer models that simulated the rapid businesses
It is my hope that by the time this article spread of the coronavirus through the UK’s are
reaches you, we will be howling not just for population. Ferguson’s model predicted over
those who sacrificed during these difficult times, half a million deaths if the UK government took “essential.”
but in celebration of freedom. Businesses around no action and also suggested that the U.S. might
the world will have fully reopened, people will face over two million deaths. Imperial College
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be free to come and go and our children will be benefits from sizeable funding from the Bill &
playing with their friends and looking forward Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), having
to a new school year together. Our “new normal” received over one million dollars in 2019 alone.
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will be just going back to normal. The same day that Ferguson’s paper was
However, the chances that things will play published, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of
out in this way are small. Cities and states may the White House Coronavirus Task Force as well
lessen or lift their quarantine orders, but they as director of the National Institute of Allergy
are likely to reinstate such orders periodically and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—part of the
until every person receives a fast-tracked, ex- National Institutes of Health (NIH)—parroted
perimental vaccine. Public health authorities Ferguson’s numbers to the American public.
and state governors have openly stated that our As a consequence, President Trump adopted
country will not go back to normal until there Fauci’s aggressive recommendations to lock
is a vaccine that eliminates the spread of the down the country in order to slow down the
coronavirus. spread of the coronavirus. Also on March 16,
But what if the authorities are wrong? Never the director-general of the World Health Organi-
before have we quarantined healthy people, nor zation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
have we made a judgment about which busi- said, “This is the defining global health crisis of
nesses are “essential.” What if we have ruined our time,” intoning that “The days, weeks and
lives based on misinformation and fear, forgoing months ahead will be a test of our resolve, a test
sound science and accurate statistics? Worse yet, of our trust in science and a test of solidarity.”
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what if we have been purposefully lied to so All of this occurred on a day when there were a
that elites can gain control of our sovereignty? total of seven thousand one hundred global Co-
If a correction is to be made, it must be vid-19 deaths and just eighty-eight U.S. deaths.
made now—regardless of whether or not we Less than two weeks later, Fauci down-
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