{"id":192065,"date":"2022-03-17T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=192065"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:05:15","slug":"those-who-chose-shaming-over-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=192065","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"424\" data-attachment-id=\"192066\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=192066\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0shutterstock_1523322002\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?fit=723%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=723%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=1024%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=768%2C450&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=1536%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=1200%2C703&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=816%2C478&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?resize=137%2C80&amp;ssl=1 137w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For those who didn\u2019t panic and remained curious throughout the long two years of the (ongoing) \u2018pandemic\u2019, take a bow and enjoy this quality reflection by Author&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/author\/gabrielle-bauer\/\">Gabrielle Bauer<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Nothing in her story is dissimilar to how sceptics of climate alarm are smeared, vilified, othered, and cancelled. Exact same tactics employed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe urge to save humanity is almost always a<br>false-front for the urge to rule it.\u201d<br>\u2013&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/14\/covid-19-the-authoritarian-lefts-overt-denial-of-science-in-a-single-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\">H.L. Mencken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely&nbsp;<br>exercised for the good of its victims&nbsp;<br>may be the most oppressive.\u201d<br>\u2013&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/14\/covid-19-the-authoritarian-lefts-overt-denial-of-science-in-a-single-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\">C. S. Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From :&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/those-who-chose-shaming-over-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science \u22c6 Brownstone Institute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/author\/gabrielle-bauer\/\">GABRIELLE BAUER<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;MARCH 14, 2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/tag\/philosophy\/\">PHILOSOPHY<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/tag\/society\/\">SOCIETY<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6 MINUTE READ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first 62 years of my life, I don\u2019t recall anyone calling me a selfish idiot, much less a sociopath or a mouth-breathing Trumptard. All that changed when Covid rolled in and I expressed, ever so gingerly, a few concerns about the lockdown policies. Here\u2019s a sampling of what the keyboard warriors threw back at me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Enjoy your sociopathy.<\/li><li>Go lick a pole and catch the virus.<\/li><li>Have fun choking on your own fluids in the ICU.<\/li><li>Name three loved ones that you\u2019re ready to sacrifice to Covid. Do it now, coward.<\/li><li>You went to Harvard? Yeah, right, and I\u2019m God. Last I checked, Harvard doesn\u2019t accept troglodytes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the earliest days of the pandemic, something deep inside me\u2014in my soul, if you will\u2014recoiled from the political and public response to the virus. Nothing about it felt right or strong or true. This was not just an epidemiological crisis, but a societal one, so why were we listening exclusively to some select epidemiologists? Where were the mental health experts? The child development specialists? The historians? The economists? And why were our political leaders encouraging fear rather than calm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The questions that troubled me the most had less to do with epidemiology than with ethics: Was it fair to require the greatest sacrifice from the youngest members of society, who stood to suffer the most from the restrictions? Should civil liberties simply disappear during a pandemic, or did we need to balance public safety with human rights? Unschooled in the ways of online warriors, I assumed the Internet would allow me to engage in \u201cproductive discussions\u201d about these issues. So I hopped online, and the rest was hysteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Village idiot, flat earther, inbred trash, negative IQ\u2026 Let\u2019s just say that my thin skin got the test of a lifetime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it wasn\u2019t just me: anyone who questioned the orthodoxy, whether expert or ordinary citizen, got a similar skinburn. In the words of one community physician, who for obvious reasons shall remain anonymous: \u201cMany doctors including myself, along with virologists, epidemiologists and other scientists, advocated a targeted approach and a focus on the most vulnerable cohorts of patients, only to be dismissed as anti-science, tin foil hat kooks, conspiracy theorists, antivax and other equally colorful disparaging labels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in the game I decided I wouldn\u2019t respond to such insults with more insults\u2014not because I\u2019m especially high-minded, but because mudslinging contests just leave me angry and it\u2019s not fun to walk around angry all day. Instead, I took the shaming on the chin (and still walked around angry).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-shame-game\"><strong>The Shame Game<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shaming impulse asserted itself right from the start of the pandemic. On Twitter, #covidiot&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/apr\/04\/pandemic-shaming-is-it-helping-us-keep-our-distance\">began trending<\/a>&nbsp;on the evening of March 22, 2020, and by the time the night was over, 3,000 tweets had coopted the hashtag to denounce poor public health practices. When CBS News posted a video of spring breakers partying in Miami, outraged citizens&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/apr\/04\/pandemic-shaming-is-it-helping-us-keep-our-distance\">shared the students\u2019 names<\/a>&nbsp;in their social media networks, accompanied by such missives as \u201cdo not give these selfish dumbfucks beds and\/or respirators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early days of the pandemic, when panic and confusion reigned, such indignation could perhaps be forgiven. But the shaming gained momentum and wove itself into the zeitgeist. Also: it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/19\/948403401\/epidemiologist-on-why-pandemic-shaming-isn-t-working\">As noted<\/a>&nbsp;by Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Julia Marcus, \u201cshaming and blaming people is not the best way to get them to change their behavior and actually can be counterproductive because it makes people want to hide their behavior.\u201d Along similar lines, Jan Balkus, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Washington,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22245094\/gaysovercovid-pandemic-shaming\">maintains<\/a>&nbsp;that shaming can make it harder for people to \u201cacknowledge situations where they may have encountered risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If shaming \u201ccovidiots\u201d for their behavior doesn\u2019t accomplish much, you can be sure that shaming people for Wrongthink won\u2019t change any minds. Instead, we heretics simply stop telling the shamers what we\u2019re thinking. We nod and smile. We give them the match point and continue the debate in our own heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gloves Off<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For two years I\u2019ve been that person. I\u2019ve smiled politely while dodging insults. To put my interlocutors at ease, I\u2019ve prefaced my heterodox opinions with disclaimers like \u201cI dislike Trump as much as you do\u201d or \u201cFor the record, I\u2019m triple-vaxxed myself.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just today, I\u2019ll allow myself to drop the pandering and call it as I see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To everyone who dumped on me for questioning the shutdown of civilization and calling out the damage it inflicted on the young and the poor: you can take your shaming, your scientific posturing, your insufferable moralizing, and stuff it. Every day, new research knocks more air out of your smug pronouncements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me that without lockdowns, Covid would have wiped out a third of the world, much as the Black Death&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/middle-ages\/black-death\">decimated Europe<\/a>&nbsp;in the 14<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century. Instead, a Johns Hopkins&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/iae\/files\/2022\/01\/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf\">meta-analysis<\/a>&nbsp;concluded that lockdowns in Europe and the US reduced Covid-19 mortality by an average of 0.2%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s more, long before this study we had good evidence that anything less than a China-style door-welding lockdown wouldn\u2019t do much good. In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3291415\/\">2006 paper<\/a>, the WHO Writing Group affirmed that \u201cmandatory case reporting and isolating patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918 did not stop virus transmission and were impractical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me that social interaction is a want, not a need. Well, yes. So is good food. In truth, social isolation kills. As reported in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/trends\/cognitive-sciences\/pdf\">September 2020 review article<\/a>&nbsp;published in&nbsp;<em>Cell<\/em>, loneliness \u201cmay be the most potent threat to survival and longevity.\u201d The article explains how social isolation lowers cognitive development, weakens the immune system, and puts people at risk of substance use disorders. And it\u2019s not like we didn\u2019t know this before Covid: in 2017,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3678277\/loneliness-even-unhealthier-than-obesity-should-be-a-public-health-priority-researcher\/\">research<\/a>&nbsp;by Brigham Young University professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad determined that social isolation accelerates mortality as much as smoking 15 cigarettes per day. Her findings splashed the pages of news outlets around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me we need not worry about the effects of Covid restrictions on children because kids are resilient\u2014and besides, they had it much worse in the great wars. Meanwhile, the UK saw a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/education-60197150\">77% increase<\/a>in pediatric referrals for such issues as self-harm and suicidal thoughts during a 6-month period in 2021, in relation to a similar stretch in 2019. And if that doesn\u2019t shake you up, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/developmenttalk\/intergenerational-mortality-tradeoff-covid-19-lockdown-policies-low-and-middle\">World Bank analysis<\/a>&nbsp;estimated that, in low-income countries, the economic contraction ensuing from lockdown policies led 1.76 children to lose their lives for every Covid fatality averted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me that vaccinated people don\u2019t carry the virus, taking your cue from CDC director Rachel Walensky\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cdc-director-data-vaccinated-people-do-not-carry-covid-19-2021-3\">proclamation<\/a>&nbsp;in early 2021, and we all know how well that aged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me I had no business questioning what infectious disease experts were telling us to do. (I\u2019m paraphrasing here. What you actually said was: \u201cHow about staying in your lane and shutting the eff up?\u201d) I got my vindication from Dr. Stefanos Kales, another from Harvard Medical School, who warned of the \u201cdangers of turning over public policy and public health recommendations to people who have had their careers exclusively focused on infectious disease\u201d in a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2022\/02\/04\/ignoring-the-economy-is-a-big-mistake-says-harvards-stefanos-kales.html\">CNBC interview<\/a>. \u201cPublic health is a balance,\u201d he said. Indeed it is. In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/10.1377\/hlthaff.20.3.288\">2001 book<\/a>&nbsp;called&nbsp;<em>Public Health Law: Power, Duty and Restraint<\/em>, Lawrence Gostin argued for more systematic assessments of the risks and benefits of public health interventions and more robust protection of civil liberties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yeah. I\u2019m upset and your finger-wagging posse left me alienated enough that I had to go looking for new tribes, and in this quest I\u2019ve been rather successful. I have found more kindred spirits than I could ever have imagined, in my city of Toronto and all over the world: doctors, nurses, scientists, farmers, musicians, and homemakers who share my distaste for your grandstanding. Epidemiologists, too. These fine folks have kept me from losing my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So thank you. And get off my lawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"192069\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=192069\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?fit=501%2C501&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"501,501\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?fit=501%2C501&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=545%2C545&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192069\" width=\"545\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?w=501&amp;ssl=1 501w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=88%2C88&amp;ssl=1 88w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-11.22.21-AM-e1641587165319.png?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/author\/gabrielle-bauer\/\">Gabrielle Bauer<\/a>&nbsp;Gabrielle divides her time between writing books, articles, and clinical materials for health professionals. She has received six national awards for her health journalism. She has written two books\u2014Tokyo, My Everest, co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Prize, and Waltzing The Tango, finalist in the Edna Staebler creative nonfiction award\u2014and is working on two more.<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/author\/gabrielle-bauer\/\">READ MORE<\/a>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:gbauer@sympatico.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/those-who-chose-shaming-over-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science \u22c6 Brownstone Institute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Covid-19 Related :<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-350c6cf4-57b0-4d7d-ba71-4feed61a7e4c\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/04\/uni-qld-law-prof-covid-hysteria-based-on-lies-propaganda-and-ignorance\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNI QLD LAW PROF : Covid Hysteria Based on Lies, Propaganda and Ignorance | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/21\/perspective-look-up-your-risk-of-dying-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perspective : Look Up Your Risk of Dying of COVID-19 | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/14\/covid-19-the-authoritarian-lefts-overt-denial-of-science-in-a-single-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 : The Authoritarian Left\u2019s Overt \u2018Denial of Science\u2019 In A Single Tweet | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/15\/covid-19-a-shocking-new-study-emerges\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 : A Shocking New Study Emerges | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/15\/covid-19-vaccines-three-in-four-aged-care-deaths-in-nsws-delta-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated-data-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19&nbsp;Vaccines :&nbsp;Three in four aged care deaths in NSW\u2019s Delta outbreak were fully vaccinated, data shows | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/climatism.blog\/2021\/03\/11\/every-crisis-becomes-a-religion-if-it-lasts-long-enough\/\">EVERY Crisis Becomes A Religion If It Lasts Long Enough | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.blog\/2021\/03\/08\/must-watch-gaslighting-unending-lockdowns-and-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">MUST WATCH : Gaslighting, Unending Lockdowns And Climate Change | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/climatism.blog\/2021\/03\/04\/surprise-surprise-global-lockdown-every-two-years-needed-to-meet-paris-co%E2%82%82-goals\/\">SURPRISE, SURPRISE! Global Lockdown Every Two Years Needed To Meet Paris CO\u2082 Goals | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/climatism.blog\/2020\/08\/25\/covid19-climate-change-the-more-afraid-you-are-the-more-you-will-accept\/\">COVID19 = CLIMATE CHANGE : The More Afraid You Are, The More You Will Accept | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/10\/sweden-the-winning-case-against-covid-19-lockdown-dystopia\/\" target=\"_blank\">SWEDEN : The Winning Case Against COVID-19 Lockdown Dystopia | Climatism<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2021\/08\/26\/corona-perspectives-from-swiss-policy-research-climatism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corona Perspectives From Swiss Policy Research | Climatism<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Climatism<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 18, 2022, by <a href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/author\/climatism\/\">Jamie Spry<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-climatism wp-block-embed-climatism\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/climatism.wordpress.com\/2022\/03\/18\/those-who-chose-shaming-over-science\/\">Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who didn\u2019t panic and remained curious throughout the long two years of the (ongoing) \u2018pandemic\u2019, take a bow and enjoy this quality reflection by Author&nbsp;Gabrielle Bauer.&nbsp;Nothing in her story is dissimilar to how sceptics of climate alarm are smeared, vilified, othered, and cancelled. Exact same tactics employed. \u2022 \u201cThe urge to save humanity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":192066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0shutterstock_1523322002.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-NXP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":216831,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=216831","url_meta":{"origin":192065,"position":0},"title":"California Urges Residents Not to Charge EVs after 4pm","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As California\u2019s global warming ready energy grid of the future buckles under a heatwave, residents have been urged not to charge electric vehicles between 4-9pm.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-59.png?fit=750%2C479&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-59.png?fit=750%2C479&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-59.png?fit=750%2C479&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-59.png?fit=750%2C479&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":216058,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=216058","url_meta":{"origin":192065,"position":1},"title":"Biden Fail: US North East Winter Energy Rationing? 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