I do not believe the media lid is strong enough to keep most public health experts from concluding, once all the numbers are in and crunched, that the response to thus new flu was anything but incompetent, unnecessarily violent, and ultimately counter-productive.
We should— and I perhaps overestimate the diligence and integrity of many people—see mea culpas and rants about lack of data and the exigencies of a global pandemic.
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But maybe they will whitewash it, cover up their mistakes. We will see.
I had a dream last night of a world without masks. It was nice.