'we made the fundamental error of placing the public health leaders responsible for coming up with the interventions in charge of the entire policy'
And government got away with this error by allowing, encouraging, or participating in a deliberate fear campaign to ensure public support for the measures.
Covid didn't shut down anything. We chose to lockdown and now we're seeing the unintended consequences of not conducting a cost-analysis benefit study. To many of us, this was foreseen the day we heard the phrase '15 days to flatten the curve' uttered. By May 2020 it was also apparent, to me anyway, and concerning that politicians were irresponsibly deferring to public health officials. We were seeing them delivering one too many messages and were incapable of course correction which should have been the job of politicians. We saw in the open our public and academic health experts lack humility and common sense right to this as they continue to peddle superstitious nonsense like masks.
Our politicians became cowards and were unwilling to allow for a proper trade-off calculation to be conducted. They allowed the hammers to hit every nail.
As for schools, we knew by the spring of 2020 children and schools were not at risk. Nordic countries kept their schools and daycares open and provided us with valuable studies and evidence that schools should have remained open.
Overall public health paid a devastating price for myopic Covid policies. And kids paid the highest price despite not being in danger and nor did they threaten 'granny'. We knew they weren't vectors of the disease and that adults were likely to infect them more than the other way around. But we cowardly projected our fears onto them culminating in the farce cruelty of masking them.
'we made the fundamental error of placing the public health leaders responsible for coming up with the interventions in charge of the entire policy'
And government got away with this error by allowing, encouraging, or participating in a deliberate fear campaign to ensure public support for the measures.
Covid didn't shut down anything. We chose to lockdown and now we're seeing the unintended consequences of not conducting a cost-analysis benefit study. To many of us, this was foreseen the day we heard the phrase '15 days to flatten the curve' uttered. By May 2020 it was also apparent, to me anyway, and concerning that politicians were irresponsibly deferring to public health officials. We were seeing them delivering one too many messages and were incapable of course correction which should have been the job of politicians. We saw in the open our public and academic health experts lack humility and common sense right to this as they continue to peddle superstitious nonsense like masks.
Our politicians became cowards and were unwilling to allow for a proper trade-off calculation to be conducted. They allowed the hammers to hit every nail.
As for schools, we knew by the spring of 2020 children and schools were not at risk. Nordic countries kept their schools and daycares open and provided us with valuable studies and evidence that schools should have remained open.
Overall public health paid a devastating price for myopic Covid policies. And kids paid the highest price despite not being in danger and nor did they threaten 'granny'. We knew they weren't vectors of the disease and that adults were likely to infect them more than the other way around. But we cowardly projected our fears onto them culminating in the farce cruelty of masking them.
Cheers.
'... any more than you can test the effectiveness of parachutes when jumping out of an airplane.'
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"
Moral: always check the study design.