[mdp2021]

The matter in your reference is/was more about an eagerness towards reducing contagion and avoiding DoS on health services - meaning, the drive is/was not "in a vacuum" but instrumental towards these goals. Many other historical cases tend more towards the utter lack of concern and prudence.

(In fact, said eagerness has been a partial factor in creating distrust, as some perceived it as a "whatever it takes" - another immense communicational failure).

Surely, the new shout "trust the science" I have seen misused and abused by the very many, in political activity, in the medical profession, in the press and in interpersonal communication: used without providing the required scientific substance ("Which rule or regulation?" // "Yes.") they gave the idea of a psychological manipulation ("Buy this stereo, it's organic"). Having used the idea of "Science" as a "totem" has been a great damage against civilization - probably clumsy instead of malicious, it still counts as dis-education.