Scott Atlas heckled at graduation for speaking truth about Covid.

No other event in recent memory exposed the hypocrisy, stupidity, and danger of the leftist elites like the Covid-19 pandemic. Nearly everything that was said and done concerning Covid was utter misinformation: lockdowns, ventilators, masks, “vaccines,” social distancing, the origins of the virus. And yet, these things were pushed hard for the next few years (Biden only ended his Covid national emergency last month) while dissenters were routinely marginalized and silenced.

But when it comes to reflecting on the virus, the left continues to deny, denounce, and disinform. Such was the case when Dr. Scott Atlas recently delivered a commencement speech at New College of Florida. After recounting the vitriol and character attacks he endured as an adviser to President Trump, Atlas lamented the damage done by political leaders and scientific authorities:

Under two administrations — Trump and Biden — the United States’ management of the pandemic was a failure, in deaths per million among the worst compared to all our peer nations — a straight line of increase in deaths per day, from March 1, 2020, through April 2022 — two full years, no change in the slope of that line even after the vaccine becoming available on Dec. 16, 2020.

Such brutal honesty drew loud boos from the crowd. Toward the end of the speech, students eventually drowned out Atlas, shouting, “Wrap it up

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