Book review: *A Plague Upon Our House* - A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats
Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 5 months ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable because it fully blows up what seems to be an emerging fake story involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who did nothing vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word of that is true. Atlas’s book, I hope, makes it impossible to tell such tall tales without embarrassment.
Anyone who tells you this fictional story (including Deborah Birx) deserves to have this highly credible treatise tossed in his direction. The book is about the war between real science (and genuine public health), with Atlas as the voice for reason both before and during his time in the White House, vs. the enactment of brutal policies that never stood any chance of controlling the virus while causing tremendous damage to the people, to human liberty, to children in particular, but also to billions of people around the world.
For the reader, the author is our proxy, a reasonable and blunt man trapped in a world of lies, duplicity, backstabbing, opportunism, and fake science. He did his best but could not prevail against a powerful machine that cares nothing for facts, much less outcomes. "
"Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable because it fully blows up what seems to be an emerging fake story involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who did nothing vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word of that is true. Atlas’s book, I hope, makes it impossible to tell such tall tales without embarrassment.
Anyone who tells you this fictional story (including Deborah Birx) deserves to have this highly credible treatise tossed in his direction. The book is about the war between real science (and genuine public health), with Atlas as the voice for reason both before and during his time in the White House, vs. the enactment of brutal policies that never stood any chance of controlling the virus while causing tremendous damage to the people, to human liberty, to children in particular, but also to billions of people around the world.
For the reader, the author is our proxy, a reasonable and blunt man trapped in a world of lies, duplicity, backstabbing, opportunism, and fake science. He did his best but could not prevail against a powerful machine that cares nothing for facts, much less outcomes. "
I've just read the review, not the book yet, and it rings very true.
It has been mentioned on this forum how reaction to the wuhu virus was perhaps the only real failure of the Trump administration. At the time we could see Trump struggling and it was not obvious who with, what and why.
Scott Atlas makes this a lot clearer. It certainly was a great achievement to get the vaccines out in a year, Biden claims it was him! Atlas reveals how that was the wrong decision based on panic and fear porn, rushed by Deepstate when a proper vaccine takes years (3,4, or 10) to get right.
Even at that time treatments were known (eg. HCQ).
What is heartening to know is that decisions of governments- ranging from mediocre to disastrous- in, so-called, careful trading off between liberty and safety, were based on fake science and supported by dishonest media.
This book comes at the right time, if Atlas' book is read widely enough it will certainly give the voting public a more informed view.
I trust him to NOT shrug this off... LOL