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Bret Weinstein: "Public health has been hijacked. Public health is a discipline that provides an irresistible loophole to authoritarians. The loophole is that public health creates a justification for lying about remedies. Right? And much of what took place during COVID was a matter of people deciding that they were entitled to mislead us in order to achieve a better outcome. than we could achieve by telling us the truth."
"In the end, the amount of harm that was done by these liars was incalculable. So, A, I am now suspicious of the entire discipline of public health because it's not that this was one error, it was many errors. And it's many errors that the discipline of public health has not woken up to even still."
"Where are the faculties of all of the public health departments who are demanding a full reckoning for what took place during COVID so that their field is not embarrassed again the next time in the same way? It doesn't exist. Right? There are a tiny handful of people. Is that fear? Is that fear? No, these people look, these people are experts in the same sense as all of the other experts. Most of them are phonies. They don't know what they're doing."
"They're basically well intentioned but they're not insightful and they're behaving like robots and they've been taken advantage of and they're now covering their asses. And frankly my feeling is public health in theory has an important role to play but it is entitled to only one tool It can persuade us. That's it. It does not get to mandate us because it's belief that it is entitled to lie about the risks that we are facing or the benefits of a particular remedy are just not matched by the hazard that it will be taken advantage of again and used to sell us stuff."
"That's actually unconscionable. So in any case my feeling is informed consent is an absolute right I don't care how fancy your argument is about the people who are put in danger in this case What we ended up doing we as a civilization was we ended up putting young healthy people at absolutely unacceptable risk for the theoretical benefit of protecting old infirm people and no reasonable society does that."
Source: Liberty Vault (YouTube)
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1866145018400145806