How About Some COVID-19 Data Transparency?
Posted By: RockyTCB, 10/12/2021 5:18:26 AM
Since the early days of the pandemic, the public has been misled and misinformed, the goalposts pulled down and taken out of the stadium, and the data too often puzzling. Much of the country has lost confidence in politicians and public health officials. It’s important to know if those doubts are legitimate or misplaced. One route to the truth would be a federal grand jury probe that would determine if the case and death counts have been inflated and not reflective of reality. Would it be a witch hunt? A political sideshow? No. It would be a sober and justifiable inquiry.
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That’s just the latest sign that the economy isn’t building back better under Biden. It might not be building back at all.
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One route to the truth would be a federal grand jury probe that would determine if the case and death counts have been inflated and not reflective of reality.
Would it be a witch hunt? A political sideshow? No. It would be a sober and justifiable inquiry.
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Those accusations are complete fabrications, unsupported by even one shred of historical evidence. Let me repeat that because it is very important: there is no historical basis, no contemporary documents, nothing, that indicates that he engaged in all of the “crimes” that present-day activists have promulgated. None! Zip! Nada!
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