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Our Failed COVID Response

Michael P Senger
Apr 26, 2022
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Virginia Hume has written a comprehensive, must-read documentation of everything that went wrong with our response to COVID. An excerpt:

“In March of 2020, an elite consensus formed that nothing mattered more than the effort to reduce transmission of COVID. A child could be locked in a home with an abusive parent. Loved ones could be left to die alone. Other deadly diseases could progress, undiagnosed and untreated, because no death was as tragic as a COVID death…We were told that the best way to fight COVID—indeed, the only way—was for all of us, at all times, to behave as if we were infected, and infectious. This was, by definition, almost never true, but society had to be reordered, other human needs sacrificed, in order for us to pretend it was.”

Hume deliberately steers clear of attempting to answer why all this transpired—a question for which I maintain that my own book continues to provide the best answer, and the one with which future generations, in hindsight, are most likely to agree. But Hume’s article is a chilling and invaluable recounting of everything that went wrong.

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Our Failed COVID Response
A February headline in the Washington Post read, “Mask Mandates didn’t make much difference anyway.” A month later, the New York Times gave us this: “Do Covid restrictions work? Yes, but they didn’t make much of a difference.” The tone is a bit flippant, isn’t it? It’s as if these headlines are referring to something inconsequential everyone once believ…
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On a side note—Alex Berenson made a strange accusation of plagiarism against Hume for her article, apparently based on the fact that Hume had included Neil Feguson’s infamous line: “then Italy did it. And we realised we could.” Aside from the fact that this line had been read millions of times in various publications—including hundreds of thousands of times in our own open letter to security services in early 2021—it turns out Hume had never, in fact, read Berenson’s book. Readers should rest assured that they’re free—and in fact, strongly encouraged—to use and borrow heavily from my book without being accused of plagiarism.


Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World.

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Bess Storm
Apr 26, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Berenson is/was an important and valuable voice but it is befuddling why he went after Dr. Malone the way he did.

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Cindi
Apr 26, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

I thought that charge of plagerism was really odd too. I’d not only seen that line but had used it myself in several comments in various substack blogs. All w/out having read his book. Really surprised he thought he’s the only one who had ever seen or heard it. It was one of the most infuriating things I ever heard & that confirmed my suspicion meter

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