If you’re paying any attention at all, you already have a list of things in your head that the public health authorities got wrong (and sometimes still get wrong) about Covid.
That doesn’t bother me. It was a new thing, on a scale they hadn’t dealt with before, and they were learning. Fine. You can’t expect them to get it right from the start. You have to learn and adapt.
The troubling thing has been the suppression of other ideas and explanations — because those other ideas are part of the mechanism for learning and adapting!
Remember when the “lab leak” hypothesis was a crazy conspiracy theory? People were banned from social media and had their careers ruined for daring to suggest it.
The suppression of public discussion by a cabal of Big Tech, academia, media, and government has been an absolute calamity. Things that should have been pursued were not pursued because they didn’t fit with the talking points.
That is not how science or a free society works.
Who is going to fix this, and how? I’m not sure, but they better do it soon.
