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July 27, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

05:36

John Tierney: The Byproduct of the Lockdown Policies

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	You know, can argue about how good the evidence is, but there's certainly some studies showing that vitamin D deficiency correlated with severe cases of COVID. And that's one of these harmless things that, you know, I mean, Fauci, in one interview, I think, in Instagram, did say, yeah, he takes vitamin D. And I wonder, why isn't he telling this?
	You know, I mean, this is something people could do that was probably going to help protect against it.
	You know, and it's harmless.
	You know, unlike lockdowns and all these other policies they do, and forcing children to wear masks, which is harmful to them.
	You know, it was just bizarre the way they were so intent on exercising this power, and they were ignoring, you know, simpler, cheaper solutions.
	When I see airlines forcing two-year-olds...
	To wear masks.
	I truly despair for my country.
	I agree.
	It's child abuse.
	I mean, I think, you know, I did a piece for City Journal called Much to Forgive.
	You know, it's horrible what we have done to our children and people who...
	I mean, it's horrible what we've done to kids.
	And it's really just, you know, just to appease the neurotic fears of some adults and the sort of cavalier wishes of these autocrats, you know, who just want to order, you know, I mean, Fauci and these autocrats, you know, all they care about is minimizing Fauci and these autocrats, you know, all they care about is They don't care what damage it does to people's lives.
	That's the whole point.
	They don't care what damage it does.
	I read to people from the very beginning the projections of the number of people who would be out of work and impoverished.
	I mean literally impoverished.
	It was rich people.
	Who set policies to ruin the lives of poor people?
	Is that a fair statement?
	Exactly.
	The laptop class went on working at home and causes economic devastation for other people.
	Worldwide, one in three people worldwide lost a job or business during the lockdowns.
	Half of them saw their earnings drop.
	And the World Bank estimated that more than 100 million people were pushed into extreme poverty.
	And yet, you know, you've got these professionals sitting at home, these journalists and alarmist scientists saying, well, no, no, we've got to lock down, and they're not suffering.
	And it was terrible what Silicon Valley did, censoring the debate about this.
	While they're prospering from these lockdowns, you know, Facebook and YouTube and Google.
	That are bankrupting local businesses.
	I mean, it was just horrible.
	It was appalling to me to see these celebrities on Zoom and YouTube that were all in this together.
	Well, we weren't.
	They were off in their homes safely, in their spacious homes, working on their laptops, and everyone else was suffering.
	They were in it for themselves.
	There's continuing on the suffering.
	I was reading a piece, I think it was in the New York Times, which of course is a big sponsor of the lockdowns, about how hotels, and I saw this.
	I was at a hotel in Texas this weekend, and I saw this at play.
	It is now policy, at least this was true for the Hyatt chain, which obviously I stayed at on this occasion, and they no longer have your room cleaned.
	Each day you're there unless you ask for it.
	And so what is a result is that a lot of people are no longer getting their jobs back in the hotel industry.
	I mean, it's a horrible thing about letting central planners run society.
	They can't possibly anticipate.
	All the consequences of it.
	And the other thing, you know, forcing hotels, and now this may be made some work for people, but forcing restaurants and hotels and schools to do all this surface cleaning.
	Which means nothing.
	Report it.
	It's meaningless.
	Right, and they knew this last year that it wasn't really spreading by surface contamination.
	But they never bothered, they couldn't be bothered to say, you know what, I know you're doing enough, skip the surface cleaning, you don't have to do that anymore.
	And think how many billions of dollars and hours were spent doing that.
	They still hand you these moronic wipeys when you come on the airplane.
	I know, it's just insane.
	I mean, once you create this climate of fear, you know, you can't unring that bell.
	And I still see people walking around, vaccinated people, you know, wearing masks outside.
	It's just, you know, I mean, it's awful.
	We count on leaders.
	They're supposed to, you know, keep calm and carry on and give us good advice.
	They carry on, but they don't keep calm.
	Anyway, let's do a part two.
	You wrote a magnificent piece, John Tierney.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much, Dennis.
	The piece is up at DennisPrager.com.
	It is the best summary of the last year and a half that I know of.
	We shall return.

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