If they cut themselves off from the internet, how will they be able to get their messages to everyone's uncles to post on Facebook and Twitter to make Thanksgiving and election day so much more uncomfortable?

Probably the people that made the lockdowns ineffective. From the same article you quoted (or should I say, "cherry-picked):

“The ineffectiveness [of lockdowns] stemmed from individual changes in behavior: either non-compliance or behavior that mimicked lockdowns.”

Funny how the people now crowing about how they were right and the lockdowns didn't work are the same people that made is the lockdowns didn't work.

I don't see what is so unreasonable about that. It has been a year and a half. That's not dishonesty. That's not even just luck. Just statistics. Is it just because you can't walk into any store and buy one yet? I got mine at Best Buy after getting an alert from their app. Got a second for my nephew just by paying attention to their website on a day when they had multiple drop times. And picked one up from Gamestop by using Hotstock.io for a friend who is too busy to be able to pay attention. They're out there. You just have to be patient. Or pay a scalper.

Last week's asteroid impact near Greenland was reported in one source I read as "about half as tall as a full-grown male giraffe". I think some outlets are having a contest on who has the worst size comparison.

So, your source is a "top US economist" (who studied elementary education not economics) and "researcher" (who is a Republican county clerk in Michigan not conducting research which shows because of his assertion without evidence that the Parkland, Florida high school shooting wasn't real) who came to a conclusion (without publishing his methods) that would rock the world of economics (except nobody heard about it because he never submitted it to peer review) when he told The Epoch Times (a "far right" publication that denies the results of the 2020 election, blames the January 6th insurrection on "Antifa," and has been named a "super spreader" of COVID misinformation) in an attempt to sway voters for the upcoming midterm elections? Does that sum up your position?