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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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! <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
That is not how science or a free society works. <\/p>\n
Who is going to fix this, and how? I’m not sure, but they better do it soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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