Mea culpa

[Jolly]

You fucked up. You trusted us...

If you’re a public-health person and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life. It doesn’t matter what else happens. So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recovered from. . . . This is a public-health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset, and that was really unfortunate. It’s another mistake we made.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/officials-now-admit-the-disaster-of-their-covid-policies/

[Horace]

The moral panic was strong.