Oddbean new post about login | logout 1 says nothing about policy or vaccines or masks etc. You were just simply incorrect about risk factors right off the bat which makes me think it’s a waste of time walking you through some other items. Some of your complaints here are also Monday morning quarterbacking. You didn’t know on day one any of the claims you made here. Nobody did, it took time and research to properly grasp the problem. Pretending that scientists efforts were evil frankly puts a target on my back when we were working very hard to get things right. There is no guarantee one can produce a cure every time and on a short schedule, whether vaccine or drug. Getting treatments out that reduce hospital loads and have the potential to restart the economy would be a big win, even if not a full on cure. Additionally the severity in symptoms reduces over time because of survivorship bias and mutation— many viruses evolve towards being asymptomatic as a means of survival. Saying covid is no big deal now is not very controversial, but the viruses floating now are not the same as before and not infecting the same susceptible population.
riddle me this. why didn't the US govt follow its own pandemic preparedness plan which was researched for best practices such as masks are worthless for coronaviruses and social distancing is not a thing. instead they all got scared and made things up. this isn't hard and you are tripping over yourself to explain their initial freakout choices.
Read the Real Anthony Fauci The scientists were mostly useful idiots, sorry. Some of us knew the face diaper, quarantining, 6ft social distancing, vaccine developed in months, and vaccine passports were bad ideas. Saying “we didn’t know” is cope.
Cope for what? I have nothing to say about science policy because that’s not something I have a background in, but I doubt policy people would want to be cavalier with an unknown virus. Things like the viral origin, effectiveness of the vaccine and severity of covid and if/how it would mutate were unknown. And fyi no scientists I know thought the lab leak was outlandish. Most were like 5050 but you don’t go around accusing people before you know more. You don’t know until you know.