Op-Ed: When It Comes To COVID, the Government and Media Need To Stop Lying

Many government agencies have lied to us about COVID. They made believe they knew things they did not know, and they played fast and loose with numbers and definitions.

And they are still doing it, using phrases like “COVID cases,” for example, which implies that someone is suffering from serious COVID symptoms, when in fact the opposite may be true.

The problem is, our government agencies are not the only liars. They have been joined by the mainstream media and by much of the medical establishment. All three of these institutions have their own reasons for misleading us.

For example, they told us people died “from COVID” after their bodies were mangled in car or motorcycle accidents. They told us small businesses had to close while big businesses could stay open. And they told us to wear a mask and not to go to the hairdresser while they go maskless and get new hairdos.

Many intelligent people have noticed this. They understand they have been lied to. They may be a minority (who knows?), but they are numerous and can wield political and communal power. They have refused to drink the Kool-Aid, and for that reason, the establishment now wants to crush them using yet more lies.

The good news is that I do not think the establishment will be able to crush or silence these people. They tend to be mentally stronger than the sheeple who swallow everything they are told. And many of them live in rural or semirural areas where they have support from neighbors and peers.

That does not mean, however, that the establishment’s dissemination of poisonous misinformation has not done damage. It has. It has done great damage to our economy and our public schools, to give just two examples.