If the 2020 elections were too early (and too corrupt) to have a true referendum on the race wars and lockdowns, then 2024 will be it.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ pick to join her on the ticket as she leads her party’s effort to maintain the White House is a reminder of everything that went wrong with America in 2020.
After the media sought to whitewash Harris’ fundraising for the 2020 BLM rioters in Minneapolis, the Democrat presidential nominee selected the governor of Minnesota, who let far-left anarchists tear down that city in what became the most expensive outbreak of political unrest in American history, to take her job. Gov. Tim Walz took days to issue a substantial deployment of the National Guard, and his wife opened the windows of their home to “smell the burning tires” because it was a “touchstone” moment.
Seems like totally not-so-weird behavior.
While the riots were exploding, Walz was encouraging residents to rat out neighbors who were violating the state’s COVID guidelines.
“Though Walz instructed police to merely issue citations to people caught violating stay-at-home orders — which is still bad enough — he also maintained the right, via executive order, to issue $1,000 fines and send violators to jail for 90 days,” Reason Magazine Senior Editor Robby Soave reported. “His government maintained that private, indoor gatherings should be limited to 10 people. Outdoor gatherings were arbitrarily capped at 25 people. On July 23, 2020, Walz declared a statewide mask mandate for most indoor spaces and even some outdoor spaces.”
How neighborly. Imagine living next to Tim Walz, your “folksy” neighbor ready to turn you in for non-compliance with dystopian protocols. Seniors, meanwhile, braced for the wave of infected patients planted in their nursing homes to share the sickness.
“He was also one of the foremost defenders of a monstrous COVID-19 policy choice,” Soave added, “sending sick, elderly patients back to nursing homes where the infection often spread to other vulnerable people, causing a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths in such settings.”
Walz defended the deadly decision by noting that the policy had been adopted by several other like-minded Democrat governors, most of whom got away with it after the Biden administration refused to probe the catastrophic orders.
“This was what everyone was doing,” Walz said at a May 2020 press conference. “This was not a mistake.”
Of course, the lockdowns didn’t work. We knew with a substantial body of evidence as early as September 2020 the government-mandated efforts at social distancing did virtually nothing to stop the virus. Donald Luskin, the CEO of the data analytics firm Trend Macro, presented a statistical study in the Wall Street Journal that month to show “locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.”
“Measuring from the start of the year to each state’s point of maximum lockdown — which range from April 5 to April 18 — it turns out that lockdowns correlated with a greater spread of the virus,” Luskin wrote. “States with longer, stricter lockdowns also had larger Covid outbreaks. The five places with the harshest lockdowns — the District of Columbia, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts — had the heaviest caseloads.”
Obesity, meanwhile, seemed to be killing everybody. Also in September 2020 came an article in Science Magazine which reported since the pandemic began, “dozens of studies have reported that many of the sickest COVID-19 patients have been people with obesity.” In one study published that year cited by the flagship journal, overweight patients with COVID-19 were 113 percent more likely to be hospitalized compared to patients of an otherwise healthy weight. Obese patients were 74 percent more likely to end up in intensive care units (ICU) and 48 percent more likely to die.
But our politicians, Walz included, didn’t embark on a Michelle Obama-style campaign to promote a nationwide commitment to metabolic health. Instead, people like Walz implored everyone to stay home and tattle on their neighbors.
Critics of the dystopian protocols, however, were silenced under the same censorship regime that rigged the 2020 election and therefore prevented the country from having a true referendum on the authoritarian response. When a team of elite scientists from the nation’s most prestigious academic institutions came together in October 2020 to publish the Great Barrington Declaration demanding an end to the lockdowns, they were silenced by the censorship regime leveraging influence over Silicon Valley.
Major platforms spent the election year suppressing both the Hunter Biden laptop and anti-lockdown medical experts in the kind of censorship protocol endorsed by Walz, who said in a 2022 MSNBC interview, “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”