We paid a very high price for our spectacular mismanagement of the pandemic, a price that will very likely surpass the impact of the virus itself many times over. Economies and supply chains were obviously hit hard by the lockdowns. Our current economic woes, even if they were going to arrive sooner or later, will evidently be worsened by the economic meltdown caused by the lockdowns. Excess mortality is on course to be higher in many places in 2022 than in 2020, even though there is far more immunity in the population and new variants of the virus are less lethal. A generation of students lost access to education for a year or more, something that will have serious repercussions on their futures. And many people have suffered the adverse harms of a vaccine they were pressured and harrassed into taking, even in cases where they did not want to take it, and in which their risk of suffering serious disease from Covid was very low.
Ten Lessons from the Covid Pandemic
Ten Lessons from the Covid Pandemic
Ten Lessons from the Covid Pandemic
We paid a very high price for our spectacular mismanagement of the pandemic, a price that will very likely surpass the impact of the virus itself many times over. Economies and supply chains were obviously hit hard by the lockdowns. Our current economic woes, even if they were going to arrive sooner or later, will evidently be worsened by the economic meltdown caused by the lockdowns. Excess mortality is on course to be higher in many places in 2022 than in 2020, even though there is far more immunity in the population and new variants of the virus are less lethal. A generation of students lost access to education for a year or more, something that will have serious repercussions on their futures. And many people have suffered the adverse harms of a vaccine they were pressured and harrassed into taking, even in cases where they did not want to take it, and in which their risk of suffering serious disease from Covid was very low.