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When it came to debating Covid lockdowns,
Veritas wasn't the university's guiding principle.
I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard.
The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered,
truth can get you fired. This is my story — a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.
On March 10, 2020, before any government prompting,
Harvard declared that it would "suspend in-person classes and shift to online learning."
Across the country, universities, schools, and state governments followed Harvard's lead.Yet it was clear, from early 2020, that the virus would eventually spread across the globe, and that
it would be futile to try to suppress it with lockdowns. It was also clear that
lockdowns would inflict enormous collateral damage, not only on education but also on public health, including treatment for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health. We will be dealing with the harm done for decades. Our children, the elderly, the middle class, the working class, and the poor around the world —
all will suffer.
Comment: Other than plant disease and extreme weather, which is affecting everything from olive oil to beef, and across much of the planet, the other factors contributing to the rising cost of most products are: lockdowns, the energy crisis, the West's multiple warfronts and the associated fallout, and the subsequent collapse of global shipping.
In conjunction with the above, there's the Western establishment's brazen attack on farming and the rising number of sabotage attacks on the food and energy supply chain.
It's notable that 'shrinkflation' and adulteration of the food supply (aka: skimpflation) is not a new concept, and is often documented in civilisations in the process of collapse: