2022-01-24
It's clear that before Covid burst upon the scene, many governments (including our own) had run pandemic preparedness exercises which purported to ensure that we wouldn't be caught napping should a pandemic strike.
We now know that the pandemic was hyped out of all reality from quite early on, possibly something to do with totally unfounded reliance on "scientific" modelling (ie: modelling by "scientists" as opposed to scientific modelling where the hypothesis represented by the model is tested against reality and peer-reviewed before being assumed to be accurate).
Still, there had to be more to it than that because seemingly all countries world-wide decided with one accord to throw all previous epidemiological and statistical good practice out of the window and to institute draconian measures that had never previously been deemed either practical or desirable - simultaneously sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "La-La-La" at any doctors professors or epidemiologists who were unwise enough to think that they might have something of value to contribute to the debate.
"We had the information we needed to rationally address this threat. We had the experience and knowledge we needed to approach this responsibly and scientifically. A very small group of people on both sides of the Atlantic chose a different path"
Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute surveys the history and finds it wanting.
