I recently went to cancel my plan on a small writing platform I’d experimented with in 2020, and then abandoned. Sifting through the orphans there, I found a piece written in November, 2020. In it, I referred to the pandemic “control” policies as causing “blunt force trauma” to the general public, and made the case they didn’t make things any better health-wise for the susceptible. In 2020 and beyond, many other people wrote exponentially more insightful, data-sophisticated, clarifying pieces, or gave interviews, or both, describing the likelihood that “NPIs” (non-pharmaceutical interventions) represented more risk than benefit in the face of SARS-CoV2. (Just a smattering:
Well done!
For the record, here's what I've gathered about what we already knew right from the very beginning:
> As a Matter of Fact, We Did Know!
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