the US Needs a 9/11 Commission for Covid

I can&#x27;t imagine it doing any good. It will be accused of partisanship, no matter how non-partisan the construction of the panel.<p>And they&#x27;ll probably be right, given that somebody has to put the panel together, and they&#x27;ll end up nudging it one way or the other. In all likelihood they&#x27;ll end up with one member representing a specific view, in the name of fairness, and they&#x27;ll disagree wildly with the final report. The news will consist of discussions between that guy and one other person, making it look like it&#x27;s an equal-and-opposite argument.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that guy is wrong, or that he&#x27;s right. I&#x27;m saying that I cannot imagine a circumstance in which the result settles anything.

Biggest issue in my eyes was authorities denying that covid was airborne until it was scientifically verified. It should have been treated as such in the beginning until proven otherwise, it&#x27;s better to be safe than sorry and it should have been obvious by how fast the virus spread that it was not via contact.

the world in general (and the US in particular) needs to accept that the pandemic could have been over in months if not weeks if people hadn&#x27;t taken a softball &quot;man v nature&quot; project and immediately turned it into a &quot;man v man&quot; storyline about themselves.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2287&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2287&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; <i>We&#x27;re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.</i> —JC

Remember the fuss over Ventilators. People saying &quot;don&#x27;t put people with weak pulmonary capillaries on these machines&quot; were &quot;trying to kill everyone&quot; then just ignored. That pattern kept repeating with anyone attempting to point out risks and problems: &quot;we&#x27;re all in this together, pull your oar&quot; into disaster.

Maybe something more credible than the 9&#x2F;11 Commission.