The reaction to the Rona virus is a reminder that the public is extremely bad at science, overly trusting of authority and easily stampeded.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University recently said the COVID-19 lockdowns are "the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years," adding that "lockdowns themselves impose great harm on people."
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Let's be fair-- even to the Dems.
This was an unprecedented event.
We will not know for some time whether the lockdowns helped or did more harm.
Of course, we all know that they did extreme harm to our mental health and to the economy.
But we should remember that Europe also felt that lockdowns were necessary.
As the saying goes: The lessons that are eventually learned from THIS pandemic may help the government when it responds to the NEXT pandemic.
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This year, it appears, the question will be: What to do with people who decline to take the vaccine? I hope that the government and private enterprises will resist the temptation to impose draconian measures.