{"id":64732,"date":"2023-01-14T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T21:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64732"},"modified":"2023-01-14T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T21:28:50","slug":"we-must-have-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64732","title":{"rendered":"We Must Have The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quoththeraven.substack.com\/p\/we-must-have-the-truth\">We Must Have The Truth<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>In an understatement of the century, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently summed up her agency\u2019s role in promoting distrust in science by stating that they did not \u201creliably meet expectations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>I am always happy to welcome new content from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/\" rel=\"\">The Brownstone Institute<\/a>, one of the last few beacons of common sense left in the world of actual journalism.<\/p>\n<p>This week they published a new piece on Covid and our response to it, called\u00a0<strong>We Must Have The Truth.\u00a0<\/strong>I reached out to the publication last year and requested permission to share their content when I enjoy it, in full, with my readers, which they kindly granted. If you\u2019re interested in the topic &#8211; or simply just having a grasp on the objective truth &#8211; I believe it is a \u201cmust read\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The article is written by Pat Fidopiastis, who is a Professor of Microbiology at California Polytechnic State University.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>On April 2, 2020, a paddle boarder was chased by authorities and taken into custody. This event should have caused unanimous outrage over the absurdity of what happened \u2013 law enforcement arrested a lone paddle boarder on Santa Monica Bay for the crime of \u201cflouting coronavirus closures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traditional voices that could have questioned unscientific authoritarian policy instead provided cover. The\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-04-03\/paddle-boarder-arrested-in-malibu-after-flouting-coronavirus-closures\" rel=\"\">justified<\/a>\u00a0law enforcement\u2019s ridiculous response by quoting a scientist who made the claim (presumably with a straight face): \u201c..[SARS-CoV-2] could enter coastal waters and transfer back into the air.\u201d Setting aside the absurdity of this and every other justification for closing beaches, hiking trails, and parks, think of the narrative it perpetuated \u2014 the virus is so insidious that even those who dared to paddle board alone on the ocean might somehow spread it to the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Must Have The Truth In an understatement of the century, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently summed up her agency\u2019s role in promoting distrust in science by stating that they did not \u201creliably meet expectations.\u201d I am always happy to welcome new content from\u00a0The Brownstone Institute, one of the last few beacons of common sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,121,29341,1426,20223,33577,1250],"class_list":["post-64732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cdc","tag-center-for-disease-control","tag-covid","tag-misinformation","tag-quoth-the-raven","tag-rochelle-walensky","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64733,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64732\/revisions\/64733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}