In recent months, we’ve seen a lot of public-health folks quietly rowing back their once-apocalyptic COVID advice and asking for forgiveness for the mistakes they made.
Well, to make mistakes is human, and to forgive them is divine.
But it’s easier to forgive human mistakes that aren’t pronounced using the Voice of God.
And deliberate misrepresentations don’t count as mistakes. Those count as lies, because that’s what they are.
In the early days of COVID, Anthony Fauci told the public that masks didn’t work.
It turned out that wasn’t based on the science of masks and COVID (there wasn’t any) but rather on a desire to preserve mask supplies for health workers.