And the best medical minds told us that the Chinese Virus was no big deal. And then, they gave us models projecting 2million deaths in America alone, then 200k, right after that, less than 60k. In Canada, we locked up our country, but forgot the seniors in their residences. ROFLMAO.
The timing is important, when the "best medical minds" said things that were wrong is much earlier vs. Trump was saying similar things in March.
Yes some key medical organizations got things wrong but they have also gotten things correct. One essential point that scientist and physicians have which gets lost in translation to the public, media and politicians is that no evidence for something is different than evidence against something. I think early on conclusions were being made on the former and not the latter but people took those conclusions to be from the latter.
We need to rely on our best available tool against this virus which is science. Shouting things over the TV, name calling, pointing fingers, false hopes and conspiracy theories do nothing against an entity that functions purely based on biology. Death threats against physician leaders and scientist also does not help. They are not perfect but its the best thing we got against this enemy, they atleast speak the language and understand how it works.
This virus and science dont have a political side and we should stop treating it as such. This is not a political issue and both sides making it such only results in more harm to the public. We are seeing that with hydrocholoroquine.
There is of course a role for politicians and thats when it comes to the economy. Each country has to make a decision on how their economy is impacted and also what the value of that is in contrast to the expected loss of life. opinions will differ there. I am in the camp that the when breaking down society and the economy to their core fundamentals, the goal is to allow the society to flourish. If we abandon those principles and make it a every man for themselves and roll the dice on who lives and sacrifice our vulnerable then might as well just have everyone live for themselves. Advanced societies place alot of value on human life and this would be a litmus test for our society if we are at a point were we can protect our vulnerable then in my mind we are advanced. Not doing so would be going backwards in the grand sheme of things.