Jeff Deist on Alex Berenson: "virus gonna virus"

Some of you may know the name Alex Berenson, the former New York Times journalist who comes from a left-liberal background.  He has been absolutely fearless and tireless on Twitter over the past eighteen months, documenting the overreach and folly of covid policy – and the mixed reality behind official assurances on everything from social distancing to masks to vaccine efficacy.  He became a one-man army against the prevailing covid narratives.  Mr. Berenson is famous for creating a viral (no pun intended) phrase which swept across Twitter last year: virus gonna virus.  Which means: whether one is in Sweden or Australia, whether in New York or Florida, whether you have mask mandates or lockdowns or close schools or require vaccine passports – or do NONE of these things – virus gonna virus.

~ Jeff Deist, “The Terrible Economic Ignorance Behind Covid Tradeoffs: My Speech to the Ron Paul Institute,” Mises.org, September 7, 2021

Alex Berenson on the economic damage from the coronavirus shutdowns

In February I was worried about the virus.  By mid-March I was more scared about the economy.  This isn’t complicated.  The models don’t work.  The hospitals are empty.  WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?"

~ Alex Berenson, "Meet the former NYT reporter who is challenging the coronavirus narrative," Fox News, April 11, 2020