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“But Fauci and other public health experts rapidly changed course. They intentionally obscured the fact that the coronavirus posed only a tiny risk to healthy people under fifty. On March 18, Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the federal coronavirus task force, cited “concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill.” Fauci made a similar comment a week later. Why? A March 22 paper from a SAGE subcommittee—kept hidden from the public at the time, but released months later—offered an answer. Only by pretending the virus posed a significant risk to everyone could governments ensure the public would accept lockdowns.”

“Wells supposed the United States had been lucky to have D.C. If the capital had stayed in the North, the South might have seceded a decade earlier, before the Union Army could bring it to heel. And if the South had broken away, at least three countries would have formed in the area now occupied by the United States - a North, a South, and a West. Then the United States wouldn't have been the dominant world power in the twentieth century. Perhaps World War I or even World War II would have ended differently. On and on the counterfactual history ran.”