Tue Nov 1, 2022 – 8:20 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A recent article calling for “pandemic amnesty” in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis is being criticized and rejected on social media by conservatives demanding accountability from political leaders who enforced harmful regulations during the pandemic.
On October 31, The Atlantic published an article by Brown University economist Emily Oster. The piece, titled “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty,” insists that “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.”
Oster’s piece opens with a recollection of family hikes and the use of homemade masks. “These precautions were totally misguided,” she wrote. “In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.”
The author outlines various examples of mandates and practices that turned out to be either ineffective or harmful, including long-term school closures, vaccine reliability, and the impact of COVID rules on childhood education and health.
“The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want
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