Is it reasonable to ask people to keep these two thoughts in their heads at the same time? <\/p>\n
1. Shutting down the country was probably the best decision at the time, given what we knew then.<\/b> The stats we had in February were truly frightening, and the experts were telling us a million people could die. <\/p>\n
2. Knowing what we know now, it was a mistake.<\/b> The virus is not as deadly as we thought, and — with 20-20 hindsight — we can come up with several plans that would have been better. <\/p>\n
Are people intellectually capable of that kind of thinking? Or has outrage culture, Trump Derangement Syndrome, “Trump can do no wrong” syndrome, etc., robbed us of that ability? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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