Opinion
The uncomfortable question nobody in Washington will ask.
JJ Johnson
July 20, 2026
I am going to ask a question that will make a lot of people uncomfortable. Good. Comfortable questions do not change anything.
Was what happened to the American people during COVID-19 — the mandates, the experimental injections, the destroyed lives, the suppressed treatments, the nursing home deaths, the cover-ups, the silencing of doctors, and the complete absence of accountability — America's holocaust?
I am not using that word carelessly. I am using it deliberately because I believe the scale of what happened to the American people under their own government demands language that matches the gravity of the crime.
What we know happened:
Millions of Americans died. Not just from the virus — from policies. Nursing home residents were deliberately placed with COVID-positive patients. Governors made that decision. Thousands of elderly Americans died as a direct result. No one was charged.
Doctors who questioned the official narrative were silenced, deplatformed, and had their medical licenses threatened. Early treatment protocols that may have saved lives were actively suppressed. The government coordinated with social media platforms to censor dissenting medical opinions. This is now documented in federal court records.
American citizens were told to take an experimental injection or lose their jobs. Their livelihoods. Their ability to feed their families. Their children were told to take it or lose their education. The government called it a choice. There is no meaningful choice when the alternative is economic destruction.
Thousands of Americans suffered serious adverse events from the vaccines. Myocarditis in young males. Blood clotting disorders. Neurological damage. Young athletes died suddenly in numbers that defied statistical explanation. The CDC and FDA have acknowledged many of these adverse events — after years of denying they existed.
The people who funded gain of function research that may have created this virus are still employed by the federal government. The people who mandated experimental vaccines on children are still employed. The people who suppressed early treatments are still collecting government salaries. The people who put COVID patients in nursing homes faced no criminal consequences.
Not one charge. Not one prosecution. Not one consequence for the people in power.
The question of scale:
I am aware of the gravity of the word holocaust. I am aware that it is most directly associated with the systematic murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime — one of the most documented atrocities in human history.
I am not equating the mechanisms. I am asking about the scale of harm, the role of government, and the complete absence of accountability.
Over one million Americans died of COVID-19. Hundreds of thousands more died of government policy decisions made during the pandemic. Millions were permanently disabled — by the virus, by the vaccines, by the lockdowns that destroyed their mental health, their businesses, and their families.
And the people responsible walk free.
When a government mandates a medical procedure on its citizens, suppresses dissent, silences doctors, covers up adverse events, and faces zero accountability for the deaths that result — what word do we use?
I am using holocaust. Not to diminish what happened in Europe. But to demand that what happened in America be taken with equal seriousness.
The accountability that never came:
Under a Johnson administration a special prosecutor will be appointed on day one with a mandate to investigate and charge every individual whose decisions contributed to American COVID-19 deaths. No immunity. No deference to agencies. No expiration date.
The American people deserve to know who made these decisions, why they made them, who funded them, who covered them up, and who profited from them.
History will judge this period. The question is whether America judges it first — or whether we wait for history to do it for us while the people responsible die peacefully in their beds having never faced a single consequence.
I am not willing to wait.
A note to those who will call this extreme:
You called it extreme when people said masks did not work. The CDC eventually agreed. You called it extreme when people said the virus may have come from a lab. The FBI eventually agreed. You called it extreme when people said the vaccines caused myocarditis. The CDC eventually agreed.
I will take my chances on being called extreme.
JJ Johnson is the founder of AMILLI AI, CORP, publisher of NewsOnScale, and a declared 2028 Democratic presidential candidate. The views expressed in this article are his own.