The mass hysteria over COVID has gradually subsided, breaking the spell cast by cynical politicians, so-called experts, public health officials and the mass media as the damage from the punishing lockdowns becomes more evident with much of it being done to the reputations of doctors and the credibility of the medical profession as a whole.
One doctor has shown the integrity to admit that he had been badly wrong about the heavy-handed response to the virus and drew a strong response for his heartfelt Twitter thread apologizing for his support for the ruinous measures that destroyed lives and businesses, with some of the worst effects being inflicted on the nation’s children whose education and development may have been permanently damaged after they were forced to suffer psychological trauma at the whims of authoritarian school and government officials.
Dr. Kevin Bass impressed Twitter users with his mea culpa about the lockdowns and mandates that he once championed before seeing the error of his ways.
“I was wrong about lockdowns and mandates. I was wrong and the reason I was wrong was my tribalism, my emotions, and my distorted understanding of human nature and of the virus. It doesn’t matter much, but I wanted to apologize for being wrong,” he wrote.
I was wrong about lockdowns and mandates. I was wrong and the reason I was wrong was my tribalism, my emotions, and my distorted understanding of human nature and of the virus. It doesn't matter much, but I wanted to apologize for being wrong.
— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) December 13, 2022
“My motivation for doing this is simple,” he said in another tweet. “It’s clear to me that for public trust to be restored in science, scientists should publicly discuss what went right and what went wrong during COVID, and where we could have done better.”
My motivation for doing this is simple.
It’s clear to me that for public trust to be restored in science, scientists should publicly discuss what went right and what went wrong during COVID, and where we could have done better.
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) December 13, 2022
“Nobody is doing that. Instead, many are doubling down and admitting no error. That’s very bad. It’s neither historically nor scientifically accurate. And it alienates people who can see that the sky is blue,” Dr. Bass added, pointing out that the COVID dead-enders are only further alienating people by sticking to their guns on lockdowns, jabs and mandates.
Nobody is doing that. Instead, many are doubling down and admitting no error. That’s very bad. It’s neither historically nor scientifically accurate. And it alienates people who can see that the sky is blue.
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) December 13, 2022
“So, be the change you want to see in the world. While more influential people than myself are not doing it, I can,” he concluded. “It’s OK to be wrong and admit where one was wrong and what one learned. That’s a central part of the way science works.”
So, be the change you want to see in the world.
While more influential people than myself are not doing it, I can.
It’s OK to be wrong and admit where one was wrong and what one learned.
That’s a central part of the way science works.
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) December 13, 2022
Mostly positive responses to Dr. Bass’s apologetic thread poured in.
Wow. Impressed and grateful.
Self-awareness and honesty are in short supply these days and you seem to have them in spades. Thank you for setting such a tremendous example for us all.
— AJ Kay (@AJKayWriter) December 13, 2022
You are quite right.
It’s interesting having spoken in person to numerous docs inside hospitals – the entire panic driven reaction was driven by watching the TV!
It influenced their opinions & framed how they responded to patients.
Testing drove it all.
— Leah Butler-Hug Your Mum ❤️ (@LeahButlerSmith) December 13, 2022
Thank you very much, I appreciate the moral courage & thoughtfulness embodied in your statement here
— GeroDoc (@doc_gero) December 13, 2022
Very mature and humble to post this. A lot of people said things during the pandemic that they wouldn’t agree with now
The mature are stating this
The immature are doubling down
— Abud Bakri MD (@AbudBakri) December 13, 2022
Thank you. My disillusionment has been profound. I don’t trust medical professionals now. At all. Or our schools with our kids. You’ve been put in the same box by most of us.
— aSweetMama (@CaraPeterson18) December 13, 2022
It’s good you are speaking out, so many people have been hurt by mandates, harmed by the injections, lost their jobs, marriages have broken down, lives lost, families torn adrift. So much damage and pain, it will take a long time to recover
— KatHiking (@KatrinaHiker) December 13, 2022
I just have the utmost respect. Shows an abundance of integrity. It’s okay to be wrong just admit it. If only politicians in DC would step up the way this man just did.
— McD (@realemcdaniels) December 13, 2022
Greatly appreciate this but you’re right, to restore trust and heal the divide people have on this, more professionals need to do the same.
— Rosie Memos (@almostjingo) December 13, 2022
What would it have taken to get through to you?
It’s great that you’re here, now. But the career I dedicated 25 years to has been dead for 3 years now and apologies aren’t going to bring that, or everything else I lost, back.
— MidnightChrome (@midnight_chrome) December 13, 2022
Appreciate your apology but don’t understand how you could have believed any of that stuff in the 1st place. I don’t have a PhD, I’m not brilliant, and I’m not famous but I knew immediately the jab was a killer and the lockdown was an evil ruse. Just. Don’t. Get. It.
— NoCommunismHere@IWillPay$8NP (@NoCommunismHere) December 13, 2022
Whether other doctors will similarly apologize remains to be seen but there is no arguing that the COVID fanatics haven’t done lasting and perhaps permanent damage to the profession in the eyes of millions of Americans.
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