The more I think about my comment the more I think it was wrong. Perhaps even dangerously wrong. 

Yes, the political, healthcare, cultural, and scientific response to Covid was bonkers. 

Scientists are still ardently refusing to utilize scientific method and tools to learn anything about the origin of the virus. This is so patently self serving that it should disqualify the entire cohort. 

But, here is my point. Conceding every bad thinking and action around the pandemic does not mean that every preceding moment in history is necessarily bunk. I think it is dangerous to wholesale throw the baby out with the bath water because we will be left with no perch from which to seek to understand anything. This sort of deconstruction serves chaos, not knowledge and understanding.