The War on Reality

Tablet Magazine ^ | June 28, 2021 | ALEX GUTENTAG

[CheshireTheCat]

.....Additionally, Cuomo required group homes for people with intellectual disabilities to take COVID-19 patients and attempted to issue a blanket DNR guideline for all cardiac patients in New York City. He also denied nursing homes’ requests for testing kits, ignored the concerns of families, and gave immunity to nursing home executives. This resulted in the deaths of nearly 15,000 long-term-care patients.

These deaths did not occur because Cuomo ignored scientists and researchers. They occurred precisely because Cuomo was adhering to predictions from his team of experts who projected the need for 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 ICUs. Ultimately, New York’s actual bed and ICU use peaked in mid-April at 18,825 and 5,225, respectively. The deadly decisions the governor’s office made were motivated by a perceived need to save resources and space—a manufactured imperative based on fictitious IFR figures and a baseless belief in universal risk.

Moreover, although some New York hospitals were overwhelmed, many were not. While Elmhurst hospital in Queens was at full capacity in April, the hospital had 26 new ambulances to take patients to 3,500 empty beds in New York City, many within a 20-minute drive. Because of panic induced by horrific forecasts, New York City doctors cited the need for “wartime ethics” when advising patients and families about DNRs. At some hospitals, doctors were informally allowed to override patients’ desires for medical intervention. These ethical violations were urged on by crazed media coverage and an environment of psychological terror, but they were not justified by the true level of danger involved in treating patients.

Despite concerns about hospital beds and ICUs, field hospitals across the country remained largely empty, costing taxpayers $660 million despite the fact that most of them did not serve any patients....

[CheshireTheCat]

This is a very long article and is not just about the New York COVID tragedy.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks. It’s few and far between to see well informed, objective and well written articles.

[ClearCase_guy]

There really is a war against reality. Biden was vaccinated in December — but he tells people that there was no vaccine until after he was inaugurated. The election results are laughable to anyone who pays attention. COVID. Global Warming. Mostly peaceful protests by ANTIFA. The “worst insurrection in our history” on Jan 6. It goes on and on.

They lie and lie badly and everyone knows it — and the liars don’t care, because reality doesn’t matter. I guess.

[absalom01]

Good find!

Now, the stories that were used to justify these hardships are continuing to unravel. Many of the people responsible will insist that the second-order consequences are the horrible symptoms of a magic virus and that the mistakes made in handling such a crisis were inevitable. But preventing young children from reaching crucial developmental milestones in the face of mounting evidence is not just a “mistake.” Forcing hospital patients to die alone without saying goodbye to their families is not just a “mistake.” Pushing millions of people into poverty and starvation is not just a “mistake.” These are crimes.

Basic civil, human, and economic rights were violated under demonstrably fraudulent pretenses. The sacrifices we thought we were making for the common good were sacrifices made in vain. Unlawful lockdowns demoralized the population and ruined lives. The tragic reality is that this was all for nothing. The only way to prevent these events from recurring is to exhaustively investigate not just the origin of the virus, but every corrupt and misguided decision made by politicians, NGOs, public health organizations, and scientific institutions made since its fateful emergence.

Penned by a public school teacher in San Francisco of all places. Perhaps there is some small hope.

[Gene Eric]

>> Thanks. It’s few and far between to see well informed, objective and well written articles.

Was anticipating... well informed citizens.

[P.O.E.]

The idea goes back to Antonio Gramsci in the 1920s.

Italian labor realized communism didn’t work (IOW, why bust your hump when the laziest goof-off gets the same pay). Common sense, right?

The Marxist solution to that was to try and abolish common sense.

“Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the “common sense” values of all and thus maintain the status quo. Cultural hegemony is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than the use of force to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced by the dominant class through the institutions that form the superstructure.”

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci