| How could we have ever known putting Covid patients in nursing homes with our most vulnerable population was a bad idea? https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/20-year-old-beating... Who could have guessed that stopping all economic activity was not a sustainable solution to the pandemic? https://twitter.com/who/status/1316020010540625920 https://nypost.com/2020/11/29/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-smal... If you don't take this vaccine you and your family will starve on the cold streets. But the company that created it also has zero liability with it being emergency authorization and all. What, you have a better idea? https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu... Nobody warned us these things could be a bad idea. How could we have known? https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867?s=... Seriously, were you living under a rock?
> "I don't think any armchair critic would have done any better."
I think if we allowed a chimp to make decisions at random we could have gotten a better outcome. |
A lot of people who pretend to be smart fled the city during the pandemic, claiming, falsely, that it had become a lawless, post-apocalyptic nightmare.
Early on in the pandemic, I participated in the COVID Tracking Project, which was the only reliable source of data on the pandemic in the US for almost a year. I was also a reporter, covering local politics and small business in San Francisco as the pandemic and the regulatory response unfolded.
So, no, I wasn’t living under a rock, and in fact was closer to the action than most people.