Daily the news is pouring in: SARS-CoV-2 behaves like a textbook respiratory virus in its vectors of transmission and its conferring immunity. It is not and never was a strange and unfamiliar pathogenic meteor hitting the earth warranting panic to the point of shutting down the normal course of life.
The policy response should have followed the proven path of the past: vulnerable people protecting themselves while non-vulnerable populations go about life as normal with an expectation of exposure. This was the settle presumption of public health. This is what the Great Barrington Declaration said and it is what Public Health England is saying now.
Why did all this happen? Did sizable parts of the world fail to pay attention in 9th grade biology class when the subjects of viruses and immunity were discussed? For that matter, is this stuff not taught anymore?
I’m just not sure what accounts for this sudden loss of knowledge. I
do know that people who specialize in political economy were blindsided
last March with the policy response to pandemic. Nothing like widespread
lockdowns had ever been attempted in the US, which accounts for why so
little has actually been written about it. The result was that many
intellectuals – on all sides! – found themselves unprepared. Subjects
like cell biology and infectious disease are not topics usually examined
by economists and philosophers, so many people decided to say nothing
at all, thereby granting the lockdowners a free hand that dominated
public discussion.........To Read More.....
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