Evil Vox feigns that these were failures of “truth-seeking”, not deliberate malice.
And they pretend we were all swept along in blind panic, ignoring those who were persecuted BY THEM for seeing clearly all along.
Read it here, if you can stomach it…
Excerpt:
Well, it was a fast-moving crisis, and so it’s not surprising in retrospect that the debate was truncated. But it is surprising, as we looked back and did the research for this book, the extent to which the decisions that were made in the early going of the pandemic departed from conventional wisdom about how to handle a pandemic and violated recommendations that had been put on paper in calmer times about how a crisis like this should be handled.
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If you go back and take a look at a report that was prepared by the World Health Organization in 2019, just months before the pandemic broke out, that document goes through each of the proposed “non-pharmaceutical interventions,” meaning the measures that are taken to keep people apart in the context of an infectious disease pandemic, like masking or social distancing, business closures, school closures.