Dissecting The New Plea for COVID Amnesty
Dissecting The New Plea for COVID Amnesty Recapping the mistakes that were made throughout COVID-19, and what can be done to prevent them from happening again. A Midwestern Doctor Many of you may remember Emily Oster’s disingenuous plea for amnesty in The Atlantic . The responses to it were almost all “How about [insert your preferred profanity].” My favorite response was someone choosing to pay to fly this over her house after the article came out: In Oster’s plea for amnesty, I felt she was providing an excellent example of a pseudo-apology—she “asked for forgiveness” but simultaneously refused to admit she was in any way at fault for any of her previous actions, and used a variety of linguistic constructs to try to both have her cake and eat it too. I really hate when people do that, so I decided to write a response to her article : The Forgotten Side of Medicine Dissecting the Deceptive Plea for COVID-19 Amnesty One of the difficulties with most forms of media is that its creat