As I think about it, another way of framing this is that our system was built to be agile. Doctors, broadly speaking, are granted a lot of freedom in our country to respond to illnesses, particularly new illnesses. They try things, document what happens, then write about it somewhere. Information is shared and spread. Various people try different things, and gradually best practices evolve.
With respect to COVID substantially the entire Medical Establishment– which would include State Medical Boards, the AMA, the people who run university medical departments and hospitals, and various State and Federal health agencies of all sorts–kowtowed to Emperor Fauci. Even Robert Redfield eventually said some reasonable things, but never Fauci.
In effect, we implemented Central Planning with respect to this pandemic. We allowed one solution, and one solution only, one which saw countless doctors in effect watch their patients turn blue without lifting a fucking finger. It’s shameful. It’s horrendous. For most of those put on ventilators particularly, it amounted to medical murder. None of those people got a fucking thing, other than maybe Remdesivir. They weren’t even allowed oxygen in most cases, which is standard practice for respiratory illness, or so I read.
And ALL OF IT is antithetical to the American spirit, to medical freedom, and to EFFICIENCY, which depends on trying everything, and settling as quickly as possible on what works. That requires networks, all moving in their own ways, all communicating to each other, all learning, all watching, and all focused on a common outcome, which in this case is an end to this fucking thing, so we can end the fucking tyranny.
The tyranny, OBVIOUSLY, WANTS ALL THIS TO CONTINUE. They made a mountain out of the molehill of an unusual flu, and now they want to build their castle on it, high above the rest of us.