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Showing posts with label Covid panic policies fallout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covid panic policies fallout. Show all posts

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Lushington D. Brady: The Long Cost of the Moloch Option


The youngest Kiwis are still paying for Covid panic

As I wrote early in the pandemic, governments like New Zealand were choosing the “Moloch Option”: adults sacrificing children to their big bogeyman, in order to spare themselves.

Two years later, the children are still paying the price, and the adults are still lying: blaming the Covid Monster instead of taking responsibility for the all-too predictable consequences of their own panicked policies.