The Greatest Lie Told During Covid

Former advisor to the US President and a Senior Fellow in health policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Dr. Scott W. Atlas, has just been published in Newsweek. His brief opinion piece “America’ COVID Response Was Based on Lies1Archive. Archive. is worth a read…

Here are the 10 biggest falsehoods—known for years to be false, not recently learned or proven to be so—promoted by America’s public health leaders, elected and unelected officials, and now-discredited academics:

Scott W. Atlas

But what if there is perhaps one more lie?

what if embedded in all of this is perhaps one more lie?

the greatest lie.

the one lie to rule them all.

this is the one that will come back to haunt us over and over if we do not call it out by name and lay plain its resounding lack of basis in fact.

it’s the lie they have been trying to sell of for decades and failing (or at least having only moderate success and thus wreaking only moderate havoc).

it’s the one lie to rule them all. the one lie to rule us all. the truly big lie constituting a forest that has been lost for the trees and perversely therefore winds up being reinforced by the very debate about the little lies.

and that lie is this:

pandemics are dangerous to modern societies...

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You can read their case here.

Censored: Florida Public Health Roundtable

Governor of Florida, Ron de Santis, hosted a public health roundtable in Tallahassee, Thursday 18th March 2021 – with Dr. Scott W. Atlas, Professor Sunetra Gupta, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff at the Florida State Capitol.

It was posted on YouTube but was soon censored.1You can read AIER’s perspective on this, and other acts of censorship, here.

Thankfully there are still platforms like Odysee which don’t censor points of view which challenge “the narrative” (transcript here).

Undeterred, DeSantis hosted another Roundtable on April 12th, 2021 with Dr. Scott Atlas, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff.

It began with all four criticising censorship… before discussing the failings of lockdowns, lockdown harms and deaths, focused protection, opening society… and in the Q&A at the end DeSantis came back to censorship, and the influence of China and big tech…

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    You can read AIER’s perspective on this, and other acts of censorship, here.