The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.

This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

I’m not sure any of those are credible media anymore. M they are a spectrum unless rightwing to white nationalists is the full political spectrum.

From the blurb at Princeton University Press:

"... schools closed for months or even years."

Where were schools closed for YEARS? (No where.)

What kind of book gets blurbed with a false premise, ffs? Is the material inside as reckless with facts?

It’s almost as if the party of the “economy” and “serious national security” hasn’t been in a long time and is really just masking that there are people who benefit from their actions and prefer that to actual good policy.

WTAF I know we are full in on “lost cause 2: they were just tourists” but you don’t have to simp the cause so hard you ignore Grant.

BUt it’s pARt of oUR HisTOry “please don’t look at the history of when we put them up”

It’s funny if not interviewing people is the problem how can release this with no comments from any one involved…

Have you considered that journalism might not be the right career for you?

Even as uneducated as I am I go check things when having conversations about them. When writing I always try to reference things when talking about them.

OU a degree mill for cons now. I thought that was liberty’s stick?

Oh maybe we could just make a ship with all the fleet’s VLS so other surface warfare ships can have more helos…

Crazy thing is they had a ship they just canceled to make room for a half as capable ship for 3/4 the cost and “checks notes again” a battle ship? A battleship in the year 2024 post spaghetti monster…