The thing about Covid is that, for a whole year, people & leaders were forced, by a real visible crisis, to listen to experts and try to do the right thing. And they absolutely hated it & never want to do it again.
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Same thing can be said about Brexit but in reverse - everyone who voted Leave knows they screwed up and that Brexit is responsible for the current fucked up state of Britain but nobody will admit that Brexit was a mistake.
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 am • 2 1 • view
Speaking as a fully vaccinated scientist, part off the problem is that many of the people who grabbed at the opportunity to call themselves "experts" and take advantage of that crisis to gain authority turned out to be neither expert nor trustworthy. Science was pushed aside by medical politics.
aug 31, 2025, 11:09 am • 2 1 • view
It boggles my mind that the experts were villainized in the name of trying to save lives during an unprecedented health crisis.
aug 31, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, they absolutely bodged it and far too many people died. COVID has a case fatality rate of something like 5%. It's serious (and long COVID is bad), but if it had been anything like, say, smallpox or measles in a naive population, things would have been much, much worse.
aug 31, 2025, 9:51 am • 4 1 • view
(I think that CFR is in unvaccinated people but with decent medical care.)
aug 31, 2025, 9:52 am • 0 0 • view
Basically we got off lightly, in terms of what a novel virus could do. We might not get off so lightly next time. There's no reason to think there won't be a next time.
aug 31, 2025, 9:54 am • 5 0 • view
Imagine their outrage at having to listen to people who know what they’re talking about.
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
All this 'cause they hated a Black prez too.
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view