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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. Today, should we, the victims of COVID tyranny, grant amnesty to the COVID crazies

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who perpetrated this fraud on us? If you've been tracking with the media lately, you've noticed a

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marked change in attitude as the failures and bankruptcy of mainstream COVID policy

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becomes more and more difficult to hide. And recently, one COVID Karen has stuck her toe in

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the waters of amnesty to sense the temperature out there for mercy, for mercy now, when she was

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not willing to grant it then, when the COVID hysteria was at its height, when people were

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actually calling for denial of treatment at hospitals for the unvaccinated. And her name

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is Emily Oster. And she is a teacher who contributes regularly to the Atlantic Monthly magazine. And

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one of those contributions is the recently published article. It was dated October 31st, 2022. With

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this title, get this title. Let's declare a pandemic amnesty. And the subtitle is we need to forgive one

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another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. Oh, there's so much to unpack

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there. Can you see just from the title what is coming? The very same hoaxers who scammed you into a

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hysterical tyrannical fever dream for two years are now scamming you into a great equivocation or one

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party that is the COVID zealot party is no more, no less responsible for the excesses of this period

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than us, who were the rational creatures who ended up being right on every major point. We have been

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bitch slapped at every turn. And now that the hysteria has calmed, you want to shrug off

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responsibility by saying we were both responsible for your injuries. No, Ms. Oster, some of us were not

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in the dark about COVID. Repeat, some of us were not in the dark about COVID. Some of us knew by hard

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evidence that the virus originated in Wuhan, financed by St. Anthony Fauci, whose involvement in financing

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and developing gain-of-function vaccines goes all the way back to 2014. No, we were not in the dark,

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but actively shining a light while you were shaming us as ignorant racists against the Chinese. Some of us

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also saw the destructive effects of locking down and quarantining an entire society instead of just the

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infected. Destructive effects, which included, but were not limited to, the retardation of the education

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and development of a whole generation of children, the closing and destruction of countless family

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and small businesses to the benefit of big box stores, to the psychological strain put upon marriages

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and families and individuals in the disruption of life routines, issuing in suicides and divorces,

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and permanent psychological damage, or the fatal postponement of minor or unnecessary procedures,

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or diagnostic treatments that would have caught early cancers, for example, or the closing of churches and

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houses of worship as unnecessary. Yet, you zealots hysterically called us killers for questioning lockdowns,

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and you gave us maudlin platitudes like, we're apart now, so that when we come back together, we're all here.

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Right? No, some of us were not in the dark. Some of us knew the PCR tests were a fraud and only tested for a wide swath of virus

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and had to be ramped up to 40 plus cycles to detect anything and were so unreliable that the same person in one sitting

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could test positive for COVID six of 12 applications and negative for COVID in the other six of 12 applications.

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Yet, you followed the science. And let some technicians shove a swab up your nose to your brainstem

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as if there were any science to it, as if it were the litmus test of salvation.

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No, Ms. Oster, some of us were not in the dark about the complete charade of masks.

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Many more of us than you realize knew from the beginning that expecting a mask to screen out a virus

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is like expecting a chain-link fence to screen out a mosquito. They are ludicrously ineffective.

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Masks served as a childlike security blanket for the emotionally insecure.

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It made zealous believers feel better about themselves, but made them no safer.

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The wearing of masks and their universal mandates for everybody served as a tool of tyranny

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for the petty tyrant in every man. Blind obedience by the masses and self-affirming feel-good virtue signaling

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by the enforcement Karens. Oh, it abounded in the land, didn't it?

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Oh, exhibit A for me was the young high school student at my local pool who,

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when I came up to the entry desk without a mask, exclaimed,

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no one gets into my pool without a mask, unquote. Oh, the petty tyrant in all of us.

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And no, we were not all in the dark. Some of us were not inoculated from the truth

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by the shills of that magic elixir, vaccines. How the medical establishment has squandered

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its cherished credibility and gravitas amongst the American people by peddling the deadly fraud

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of the COVID vaccine. We can never trust Big Pharma, Big Med, and Big Government again.

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None of the battery of vaccines rolled out by Big Pharma kept us from getting COVID like you promised.

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They didn't prevent the spread of the virus to others like you promised.

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The vaccines didn't alleviate the symptoms or severity of the virus like you promised.

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In fact, some of us knew, because we did our homework, Ms. Oster, that these deadly gene therapy

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kill shots actually destroy one's natural immunity and bring on deadly side effects like

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microcarditis, most famously, but not limited to. Time does not permit us to detail the wide swath

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of destruction. These vaccines are even now reeking upon the biology of humanity, but we are documenting

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it and carefully noting who did this and why and precisely what has been done, not just for posterity,

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but most especially for the court dossier. There will be a reckoning and I should say, arrest Fauci

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first. That should be our mantra. Arrest Fauci first. So, right out of the gate, Ms. Oster,

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in your very title, which is, once again, we're reviewing Emily Oster's article in the magazine

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Atlantic, her title is, Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty. We Need to Forgive One Another for What We

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Did and Said When We Were in the Dark About COVID. That's the Title of Her Article. Let's Declare a

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Pandemic Amnesty. Even right out of the gate, Ms. Oster, you betray what you really want to do. You want

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to equivocate over the fact that you were wrong on every factor of COVID to the eternal debilitation of

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our way of life. And we were right on every factor. No, we do not share equal blame, equal

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responsibility, equal ignorance of the facts of the case. And your article tries to play upon our

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heartstrings, too, to the distraction of our common sense. Emily Oster writes in her article of how she

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and her family took walks to relieve the boredom of being shut in and locked down with a little to do.

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Where her four-year-old son would yell at other maskless children who strayed too close,

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social distancing! Oh, a well-trained, well-groomed automaton. Nothing demonstrates the

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habits of our hearts like the conditioned behavior of our children. Like teacher, like student. And

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Emily goes on to admit that the efficacy of masks out of doors was vanishingly small, but we didn't

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know. Au contraire, Emily Oster, someone did know, just not you. You and the whole army of hysterical

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mandate enforcers like you are perpetrators of not only vaccine villainy, but also the logical

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fallacy of deliberate ignorance. The logical fallacy of deliberate ignorance, where indeed defined

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as choosing not to listen, tuning out, or turning off any information, evidence, or arguments that

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challenge one's beliefs, ideology, standpoint, or peace of mind. So, when it comes to the mother of

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all COVID issues, and that's vaccines, all of this the apologist Emily Oster can do is to establish

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why we should declare amnesty is to trivialize the matter. And she reduces the controversy of vaccines

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to which jab was the best, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, or Moderna. Really, really, Ms. Oster,

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where were you when thousands of experts in their fields were raising questions about the warp speed

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with which these kill shots were being rushed to market? And I just give you as one example,

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the Great Barrington Declaration. It was a declaration of caution signed by many hundreds of experts. For

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example, in this rushing the vaccine by warp speed to market, they skipped the most important step in the

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safety protocol, and that was animal trials. Where were you, Ms. Oster, when thousands of experts

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raised questions about the new gene therapy of mRNA technology? We have no idea of the long-term

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harms that might be caused, but we are finding out through experience, aren't we? We, the people,

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after all, are the animal trials. Where were you, Ms. Oster, when thousands of experts raised questions

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about the many untested adjuvants in the vaccines, which we are now finding incite effects like

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Bell's palsy or microcarditis? Where were you, Ms. Oster, when thousands of experts were questioning

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the unleashing of numberless prions into the human immune system, which the mRNA technology

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stimulates the body to produce? On and on we could go, articulating real substantial issues

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concerning the vaccines. But all you do, Ms. Oster, is reduce it to a matter of a choice between J&J or

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Pfizer, Obladee or Oblada. Trivial. Or the big deal you make out of a non sequitur. That is the supposed

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controversy about how the health community had to battle to keep us from injecting bleach.

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That was a non-issue, an off-the-cuff remark by President Trump. No one seriously proposed that.

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Trivialities. You deal with trivialities. Excuse me, trivialities. And but by trivializing the real

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issues over vaccines, people like Emily Oster hope to deflect attention and responsibility

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that she and her ilk rightly deserve to have placed squarely on their shoulders. But it won't work.

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You will be held responsible. The crimes committed against the American people and the world

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are truly breathtaking. Oh, Ms. Oster hopes to lead us down a primrose path, though, of naive

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projection. Everyone who thinks like that, that is not to engage in naive projection, assuming that

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everyone is of a goodwill character like yours. Do not project naively that everyone is of a goodwill

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character like you. Given the amount of uncertainty, she says in her article, going on in her article,

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she says, given the amount of uncertainty, almost every position was taken on every topic. And on

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every topic, someone was eventually proved right and someone else was proved wrong. In some instances,

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the right people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding

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of the available information. Oh, once again, Ms. Oster, in the first place, I refuse to grant your opening

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giving. That is, I refuse to grant your opening given, excuse me, the given that the uncertainty was

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universal. We have just dealt with that pretty extensively. The uncertainty was yours, Ms. Oster,

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willfully, deliberately yours. In the second place, I reject your implicit assumption that some people

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were right and others were wrong on a random basis. That we were all just shooting in the dark. That the

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medical establishment was playing a kind of giant game of pin the tail on the donkey, blindfolded and

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aiming the best they could for the COVID donkey's rear end. No, that COVID was played out in the casinos

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of Las Vegas. And not in the Wuhan lab and the Centers for Disease Control. No, Ms. Oster, you cannot have it

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both ways. Either one side was right based upon the science, whether it be good or bad science, or it

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was based upon random guesses. Ouija board science, if you will. You contradict yourself, Ms. Oster.

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Once again, we are looking at Emily Oster's article from The Atlantic, which is entitled,

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Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty. We Need to Forgive One Another for What We Did and Said

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When We Were in the Dark About COVID. And this article is but an exercise in obfuscation and distortion.

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Emily, we will not let you obfuscate what you did to us. Your article only perpetuates the bullying

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and condescension you evidenced in the pandemic. She goes on to say, the people who got it right

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for whatever reason may want to gloat. Those who got it wrong for whatever reason may feel defensive

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and retrench into a position that doesn't accord with the facts. She goes on to say, in the face of

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so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And similarly, getting something

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wrong wasn't a moral failing, she says. Getting something wrong wasn't a moral failing. Treating

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pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us

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from moving forward. Oh, Ms. Oster, I hate to break it to you, but getting something wrong is a moral

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failure when you act to suppress and oppress people who disagree with you based upon that which you

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got wrong. That is what is crucial. You destroyed the health and the rights and the well-being of

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millions of those with whom you disagreed over what you got wrong. You barred people from critical

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surgeries who refused the kill shot. Others had delayed or canceled routine checkups or procedures

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that would have caught diseases early to prevent them. Countless thousands of people have lost their

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careers and livelihoods because they refused the kill shot. We couldn't visit or hold hands with or look

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into the eyes of one last loved one for that time or say one last goodbye to our elderly parents as they

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lay dying in hospitals, nursing homes, and hospice centers. You saw to that. And because of your hysterical

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frenzy, we couldn't see our children graduate in open ceremony or get married in weddings or solemnly say

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goodbye in funerals, all human interaction came to a halt because of your obsession. You stigmatized,

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canceled, and banned from public life those who disagreed with you or offered alternatives to the

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mainstream narrative promulgated by St. Anthony and his minions. You filled the air with hate speech,

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which you at least ostensibly hate so much, right? You filled the air with hate speech as you self-righteous

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Karens browbeat, criticized, and harangued people in public who refused to wear masks or social distance

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or support your draconian lockdown measures. No, Ms. Oster, the real thing that is preventing us from

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moving forward is the lack of a tribunal where all of those guilty of visiting this crime upon us

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are brought to justice. There will be no progress without justice. Crime must be punished or it will

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go on. It will repeat. It will flourish in the land. As Solomon says in Ecclesiastes, because the sentence

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against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do

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evil. There must be justice for evil to stop, Ms. Oster. Once again, the prophet Habakkuk says

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that under these kinds of conditions, the law is paralyzed and justice never goes forth. For the wicked

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surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted. This is the situation if indeed justice

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is not done. There will be no going forward until we look back and judge and punish the crimes against

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us. And there will be no amnesty, quote-unquote. And once again, we are looking at Emily Oster's

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article in The Atlantic, if you're just joining us, from October 31st of 2022. And the title of that

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article is, Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty. We Need to Forgive One Another for What We Did and Said

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When We Were in the Dark About COVID. But there will be no going forward. There will be no amnesty

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or forgiveness until there is repentance on your part for the sin you perpetrated on your fellow citizens

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in your moral frenzy, or should we call it an immoral frenzy. And I really do not expect much from you

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or your ilk. I do not expect a mea culpa anytime soon. In fact, your article betrays an unrepentant

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heart. Once again, from Emily Oster's article in The Atlantic, Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty.

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She says, Many people have neglected their health care over the past several years. Notably, routine

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vaccination rates for children are way down. Rather than debating the role that messaging about COVID

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vaccines had in this decline, we need to put all our energy into bringing the rates back up.

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Pediatricians and public health officials will need to work together on community outreach. And

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politicians will need to consider school mandates. Here we go again. She is completely unrepentant.

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Ms. Oster, there is no one so blind as those who will not see. Your closing forte after the absolute

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slaughter that is the COVID vaccine is more vaccines. Can you not see that vaccine hesitancy

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is quickly turning into vaccine certainty? Has it passed you by completely that all trust has gone

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forfeit in our medical establishment? Big pharma, big med, and big government. As one commentator puts

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it, how can you trust these people again? Oh, amen. How can you trust these people again?

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How can anyone with even one sentient brain cell ever trust these people again? And then finally,

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finally, Emily Oster's article in The Atlantic, once again, entitled, Let's Declare a Pandemic

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Amnesty. We Need to Forgive One Another for What We Did and Said When We Were in the Dark About COVID.

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Finally, an artless attempt to obfuscate the past and shirk responsibilities for crimes and sins

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and avoid the grinding mill of justice. She closes with an attempted flourish. She says,

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the standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling

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on the mistakes of history can lead up to a repetitive doom as well. Doom loop, excuse me,

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a repetitive doom loop as well. Let's acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep

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uncertainty. And then try to work together to build back and move forward. Oh, she almost said build

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back better, didn't she? Perhaps you anticipated what many of us will say, Ms. Oster. That is indeed,

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if we do not remember the past hysteria, we are doomed to repeat it. It will happen again. The COVID

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lemmings will rush towards the white cliffs of Dover again, sweeping us all along with them to our doom.

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The real doom loop, Ms. Oster, is the historical one inherent in our nature. That is the herd instinct,

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which causes us to panic in times of real or perceived danger, and then to rush to do stupid

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things like stampeding cattle or crushing mobs in a burning building. You, Emily Oster,

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just refuse to admit that you let the herd instinct get the best of your reason during the response to

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COVID. You let the urge to stampede overwhelm your better sense. And now you're trying to beat back

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better and cover your tracks and obfuscate the past before we can document it. Yes. At the state fair,

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contestants grease pigs to make it more difficult to capture them to win a prize. And here in this

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article, Emily Oster attempts to grease she and her fellow COVID zealots with excuses and equivocations

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to make it more difficult to capture them for accountability and justice. But it won't work,

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Emily. You and your hissy fit Karens will be held accountable. Justice will be brought to bear

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upon you. And there is another standard saying to which that I allude. The wheels of justice grind

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slowly, but they grind exceeding fine. And already there are calls for justice to be served. Senator

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Rand Paul has requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland criminally investigate Anthony Fauci for

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lying to Congress. St. Anthony said unequivocally that he did not participate in gain-of-function

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research when there is evidence he did. I do not expect this fraudulent Justice Department to pursue

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this case right now, but at least the accountability has begun and it will not stop. It will be brought to

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light. The wheels of justice are beginning to grind. And we must arrest Fauci first. Arrest Fauci first,

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but not last. He must be the first of many. And as for forgiveness, this is indeed a Christian virtue.

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The Apostle Paul tells us in Colossians, as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

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What must always stand is our readiness to forgive, and I am ready to forgive. But biblical forgiveness

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is not open-ended and it is not one-sided. Forgiveness is a two-way street. The offender must repent of sin

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and ask forgiveness before it can be granted by the offended party. The Lord forgives us when we become

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aware of the enormity of our sin against Him. And then when we ask forgiveness and turn from our wicked

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ways, God forgives, God forgives. Then and only then are we forgiven. That is the pattern of forgiveness.

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It is bound up with genuine repentance on the part of the offender. Have you acknowledged your sin against

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us, Emily Oster? Have you repented of your egregious offenses and turned from your errant ways? Have you

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humbly admitted your brutish treatment of your fellow man during the pandemic and have you asked for our

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forgiveness? I've seen no evidence of that, nor do I expect to see it anytime soon from a self-absorbed

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narcissist like Emily Oster and her partners in disinformation. The evidence of your article. And once

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again, we have just considered Emily Oster's article in The Atlantic, Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty.

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That's her title. Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty. With the subtitle, we need to forgive one another

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for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. Emily Oster's article is that you,

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the upshot is that you will continue in your arrogant progressive pattern of behavior. But there's always

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hope. There's always hope for a change. And for this, I pray, dear listener, that there will be a change

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in heart. And always remember, as well, dear listener, just remember, there will be no building

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back better until you stop trying to beat back better and cover your tracks. There will be no

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building back better and moving forward, as you call for in your article, until there is justice upon

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and repentance from you and your COVID mafia. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva

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Orthodox Presbyterian Church. And we encourage you to join us in holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m.

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at 1014th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for more information or more

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feedback, too. Give me some feedback on this, if you would, at area code 208-523-0196.

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That's area code 208-523-0196.