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Thank you for the interesting and thought provoking article. I have a few comments:
1. There is no doubt that many assumed that people in positions of power (such as Fauci) were experts. IMHO, however, the main problem is that true experts were not listened to. Dr. McCullough was ignored about early treatments. Dr. Malone was dismissed. Dr. Cahill was silenced. Dr. Bridle was ousted. Dr. Gupta was discredited. Even Canadian crisis management expert, David Redman was given a deafening cold shoulder. In very fact, the experts in epidemiology, virology, immunology, medicine, and crisis management were systematically ignored and silenced. They are outcasts to this day.
2. While it is true that chief medical officers became the face of the covid crisis, and that they announced the newest measures, this does not necessarily mean that they were actually the ones making the decisions. Watching my local CMO convinced me that he was being bullied and pressured to tow a specific line. For instance, at his daily press conferences, the MSM hounded him day after day about bringing in a mask mandate until he buckled and brought one in (against his own stared opinion about mask effectiveness).
3. I knew in Jan 2020 that the covid scare was a Chinese hoax: what was being said and done about this coronavirus defied all basic biology and medicine. I knew by March of 2020 that the IFR of covid was hardly worse than a mild flu, and that it primarily killed the old and infirm. By April I was writing letters advising governments that lockdowns would kill more people than covid. It did not take an expert to see any of this. Every real expert should have known the same.
4. The fact that the majority of governments around the world acted in lockstep offers to me pretty convincing proof that the problem is not about how governments related to their chief medical advisers or official "experts." Each country, state or province should have had their own independent and previously defined relationship. Most countries had a pandemic plan, only to drop it when covid hit. This tells me that the problem will not be resolved by more legislation or better definitions of roles.
5. To me, living in a technically advanced country, it is a public embarrassment what we did in response to covid. The big question is how were medical advisers and officers that should have known better, either so grievously mistaken or so entirely convinced to act against their own knowledge and education.
Don’t forget the capture of institutions by commercial interests. The “experts” were interest-conflicted, as were the institutions where they worked.
Thank you for the interesting and thought provoking article. I have a few comments:
1. There is no doubt that many assumed that people in positions of power (such as Fauci) were experts. IMHO, however, the main problem is that true experts were not listened to. Dr. McCullough was ignored about early treatments. Dr. Malone was dismissed. Dr. Cahill was silenced. Dr. Bridle was ousted. Dr. Gupta was discredited. Even Canadian crisis management expert, David Redman was given a deafening cold shoulder. In very fact, the experts in epidemiology, virology, immunology, medicine, and crisis management were systematically ignored and silenced. They are outcasts to this day.
2. While it is true that chief medical officers became the face of the covid crisis, and that they announced the newest measures, this does not necessarily mean that they were actually the ones making the decisions. Watching my local CMO convinced me that he was being bullied and pressured to tow a specific line. For instance, at his daily press conferences, the MSM hounded him day after day about bringing in a mask mandate until he buckled and brought one in (against his own stared opinion about mask effectiveness).
3. I knew in Jan 2020 that the covid scare was a Chinese hoax: what was being said and done about this coronavirus defied all basic biology and medicine. I knew by March of 2020 that the IFR of covid was hardly worse than a mild flu, and that it primarily killed the old and infirm. By April I was writing letters advising governments that lockdowns would kill more people than covid. It did not take an expert to see any of this. Every real expert should have known the same.
4. The fact that the majority of governments around the world acted in lockstep offers to me pretty convincing proof that the problem is not about how governments related to their chief medical advisers or official "experts." Each country, state or province should have had their own independent and previously defined relationship. Most countries had a pandemic plan, only to drop it when covid hit. This tells me that the problem will not be resolved by more legislation or better definitions of roles.
5. To me, living in a technically advanced country, it is a public embarrassment what we did in response to covid. The big question is how were medical advisers and officers that should have known better, either so grievously mistaken or so entirely convinced to act against their own knowledge and education.
Mr. Freedom do you know what US govt. is doing to targeted induviduals? Feeding us into Klaus’s transhumanist experiments. https://twitter.com/hellsbellicose/status/1538143860580306945?s=21&t=ZWVvMOogPYD2NHLZ7oA2Vg