There’s a pithy gem of popular wisdom, reminding us that “pride comes before a fall.” There is perhaps no better moment to reflect on this than in the wake of one of the most disastrous social engineering experiments of modern times. Much of the far-reaching collateral damage of pandemic policies, including the erosion of civil rights, the epidemic of depression and loneliness, the increased dysfunctionality of health services, the collapse of many jobs and businesses across the world, and the effective transfer of wealth from small businesses to large multi-nationals, could have been greatly mitigated if scientists, public health officials, and political leaders had swallowed some of their pride and recognised the limits of their own knowledge and power.
"tried-and-tested" would have also included rapid testing option that people could choose.
Planning to visit friends but have a slight cough: test....our industrial medical complex and tech companies are great at such things.
In fact, Zuckerberg spouse's foundation built free covid testing but no one could use it for one stupid reason...they couldn't enter zero cost for the test in the medical billing system. Humility from hospital admins could have said f#ck the billing system, order it!
The Ego can be a very dangerous thing,,, The" I am right and you are wrong" seems to hold fast in the more educated classes,, It seems just because they have gone to college and learned to repeat what has been told them again and again they get into a cult like mindset that they are far superior than someone using critical thought and questioning the status quo. Common sense is missing because they are up their own arses so to speak...
"tried-and-tested" would have also included rapid testing option that people could choose.
Planning to visit friends but have a slight cough: test....our industrial medical complex and tech companies are great at such things.
In fact, Zuckerberg spouse's foundation built free covid testing but no one could use it for one stupid reason...they couldn't enter zero cost for the test in the medical billing system. Humility from hospital admins could have said f#ck the billing system, order it!
The Ego can be a very dangerous thing,,, The" I am right and you are wrong" seems to hold fast in the more educated classes,, It seems just because they have gone to college and learned to repeat what has been told them again and again they get into a cult like mindset that they are far superior than someone using critical thought and questioning the status quo. Common sense is missing because they are up their own arses so to speak...