I was under the impression that, originally, COVID policy was intended to allow for our collective healthcare infrastructure to spin up an adequate response to the surges prevalent with the infections and their potential outcomes. Public Health Policy that limited spread did do that while the healthcare industry found best practices, equipment, and medicines which were intended to help those who were potentially infected and required medical attention to get better.<p>Based on the results of this policy, it appears that that the world has solved for SOME of those key pieces but has failed in many others, as evidenced by the inability for some regions to handle the surge in cases, particularly in areas where we are just beginning to again exceed where we were a year ago in case load.<p>Does this mean that COVID policy has failed? Depending on what we're talking about here: no, not in my opinion. What has failed is the ability for the healthcare industry to scale to meet the current caseloads, particularly when they knew what to expect when we might hit levels we are currently seeing and have seen before.
This article is not about Covid not being a threat, it's about people not knowing who to trust in a rapidly changing world with multiple actors with conflicting goals.<p>"Politicians lie to achieve their goals" This is hardly newsworthy.<p>> There is no scientific, rational justification for a continued belief that “interventions” matter. All over the world, masks and vaccine passports are failing on an unprecedented scale. How can anyone still believe they work?<p>I feel like this is more about a lack of trustworthy authority than that science having failed. People need to understand and appreciate the limits of science...and then you have to consider the political angle.