Michaela Schippers

Why I've lost trust in most all intellectuals and the institutions that purport to represent them: they have had almost nothing to say (except by way of support) of the entire Covid response. I just cannot take these people seriously now or ever. This goes for many supposedly great minds I once respected. It should be obvious by now that this was and is probably the most important shift in the historical narrative In decades if not hundreds of years. Why the silence about the following? * A entire generation was denied actual eduction * The response showed public would mostly believe any absurdity, even that masks were protective against microbial infection and that standing far apart from people was the key to health * Governments canceled religious holidays with two thousands years of tradition and got away with it * A grass-roots movement would rise up among us to defend and enforce preposterous claims including that hiding under the sofa would cause a respiratory infection to go away * Governments the world over learned that they could perhaps spend without limit, run up debt, and inflate away the obligations * Industry realized there were far more profits in panic and mandates than in normal marketing * The ruling class discerned that they could get away with endless abuse of the people provided it was pushed as public health * The vaccine industry realized that no lie was beyond plausibility even when they were caught and even when their product caused vast injury and death * Media was revealed to be nothing other than a deep-state megaphone * Academia proved itself to be mostly useless Any actual intellectual worth his salt would have been sounding alarms throughout this amazing fiasco. Some have. Very few, mostly associated with new institutions that are displacing the old failed establishment. Legacy thinkers have generally pretended that none of this happened. Remember these days: an entire generation of vaunted intellectuals is hereby discredited, revealed as sycophants, and otherwise exposed as having chosen the comforts of social position and financial stability over truth.