Perdoar e esquecer o pandemónio?

Um artigo de opinião da profª de economia norteamericana Emily Oster no The Atlantic propõe uma 'amnistia' para apaziguar os ânimos das contendas mais extremadas sobre a validade e consequências das medidas de mitigação da pandemia:

(…) We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge. (…) The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward.

Mas acabou por ter o efeito contrário - e os que criticaram a sua alegada postura conciliatória têm razão: aqueles que sofreram na pele a discriminação e ostracização social durante quase três anos não podem simplesmente 'perdoar e esquecer' o que aconteceu apenas porque não se sabia tudo e foi preciso agir por precaução, e porque agora é tempo de avançar e não de cultivar rancores. O que seria necessário era garantir que o que sucedeu durante a pandemia não voltasse a suceder perante outra crise. Mas o que se viu com a guerra na Ucrânia foi novamente a censura e a diabolização de quem tem questionado a narrativa oficial propalada por governantes e media – ver p.ex. aqui, aqui ou aqui.

Recomendo pois a leitura de alguns dos textos que fazem uma análise crítica da apologia conciliatória de Oster:

Charles Eisenstein: https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/amnesty-yesand-here-is-the-price

(…) Let us inaugurate an era of accountability based in transparency rather than punishment. The invisible workings of the Covid machine must be laid bare if we are to prevent something similar from happening again. People and institutions must become cognizant of the role they played in the social catastrophe that was Covid. I will support amnesty when universities admit that they coerced young people to take unnecessary and dangerous vaccines. I will support amnesty when Pfizer describes how it manipulated data to get its shots approved. I will support amnesty when regulators confess that they allowed shoddy vaccine manufacturing processes to proceed without oversight. I will support amnesty when medical boards and hospitals acknowledge that they expelled doctors for using beneficial therapies. I will support amnesty when the FDA admits that it removed helpful drugs from the market. I will support amnesty when social media platforms acknowledge that they censored important, true information. I will support amnesty when fired workers are reinstated with back pay. I will support amnesty when the state of Rhode Island reinstates my wife as a licensed acupuncturist. I will support amnesty when the government acknowledges vaccine damage and compensates the victims. I will support amnesty when regulatory agencies are freed of corporate influence. I will support amnesty when vaccines are subjected to long-term, robust scientific study to determine safety and efficacy. I will support amnesty when mainstream media gives attention to the dissidents and whistleblowers it has ignored and ridiculed. I will support amnesty when brave, conscientious doctors like Peter McCullough and Meryl Nass are reinstated by professional organizations and medical boards. I will support amnesty when a moratorium is declared on genetically engineered bioweapons research, and its full extent made transparent to the public. These are the kinds of things that would have to happen for me to trust that amnesty wouldn’t mean license to repeat the crimes, again with the excuse of “We didn’t know.”

Vinay Prasad: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/pandemic-accountability

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many bad policies being implemented. We need accountability so that we never institute these policies again. Let me enumerate some structural solutions (…)

Eugyppius: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/emily-oster-proposes-a-pandemic-amnesty

(…) Emily Oster’s latest act of moderation is the suggestion that we forgive and forget all the disastrous policies inflicted on us by terrified wealthy urbanites, clueless technocrats and mad scientist vaccinators since 2020, because, hey, these were just honest mistakes, anybody could’ve messed up like that, it’s all good.

Madhava Setty: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-pandemic-amnesty-accountability/

(…) Yes. We do need to forgive each other in order to move forward — but that will be possible only if we take full account of the mistakes that were made and come to an understanding of why so many people made them. Sadly, Oster isn’t interested in this level of inquiry and the editors at The Atlantic aren’t either. What happened over the last two-and-a-half years was reprehensible, and her attempt to get to the bottom of things is fanning the flames of fury among those whose lives were destroyed by ad hominem attacks, de-platforming, delicensure, demonetization, demonization and debilitating vaccine injuries. (…) She’s right about one thing. Getting things wrong during a time of uncertainty was not a “moral failing.” The moral failure occurred whenever people in her position of uncertainty ruthlessly attacked anyone who happened to get it right…

Já no final de 2020 (aqui) me tinha recusado a aceitar a expressão 'um ano para esquecer' - e reitero-o agora, repudiando as tentativas de banalizar e branquear a engenharia social que foi imposta a reboque do pandemónio. Considero particularmente gravosos os seguintes factos: a forma brutal como foram demonizadas as pessoas que se recusaram a vacinar-se, assim como outras medidas, incluindo chantagem emocional e psicológica, para incentivar a vacinação; a imposição de certificados e passes sanitários, quando já se sabia que as vacinas não preveniam a transmissão. Aproveito para recordar os posts onde manifestei a minha indignação, dando voz a muit@s d@s que questionaram a narrativa dominante e a propaganda permanente - em 2021 (aqui e aqui) e em 2022 (aqui).