Far from having repudiated this brutal, rights-violating, and ineffective method of pandemic management, the ruling class is doubling down. Even more than that, those who participated in the fiasco are being rewarded. Indeed, participation is now seen as proof of loyalty and a demonstration that one can be trusted by the people who matter.

That’s my best read on why Mandy Cohen is being pulled away from her perch in North Carolina, where she led a catastrophic pandemic response, to be the replacement for Rochelle Walensky as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is a faithful member of the lockdown party and thus demonstrates her willingness to do it again should the occasion arise.

This is not going to help the CDC recover from its terrible reputation.

[This is being abetted in part by the Protection Racket Media, which has covered for the lockdown squad for the past three years despite ample scientific data that lockdowns were unnecessary — especially in schools. In addition, the Government-Industrial Censorship Complex also suppressed and punished those who speak out against those who created and implemented those policies, at least until the Twitter Files exposed them. — Ed]