I am not sure about the world but this is what I have learnt or had further confirmed.
Source: Medscape
1. Most people don't understand statistics
2. The science can be very easily politicized
3. Mathematical Models have huge margins of error.
4. Fear Porn is powerful. It can triumph over reason.
5. The CDC is not the great organization it pretends to be. Not even close.
6. The Surveillance state is growing stronger by the day and will continue to do so.
7. You can do almost anything in the name of public safety.
8. People are very willing to give up their freedoms as a whole. This is shocking.
9. There is an urgent need to educate the public on risk analysis. This of course will never happen.
10. There is no shortage of self-righteous individuals.
11. We will look down on the hard (full scale) lockdown decisions as one of the worst policy mistakes in the modern era.
12. Pandemics march to their own beat not ours. Don't underestimate the power of evolution. It has a several billion year head start on us.
13. Big Tech and Big Pharma were the winners here. Small business took it largely on the chin.
Source: MarketWatch
14. There is no limit to the hypocrisy of the elites.
Source: Daily Brett
15. Cancel culture is a powerful weapon.
16. The elites will push all sorts of boundaries to protect their business arrangements with Beijing.
Source: South China Morning Post
17. There is no deficit of rats willing to sell out other people.
18. We may never know the origin of the virus for sure as it is likely an inconvenient truth. Truth is also our biggest victim.
19. Anthony Fauci flies by the seat of his pants. His only stability is his inconsistency. The fact that he has become a secular saint for some reflects on the spiritual gap in many people's lives.
source: record.net
20. The Authoritarian Impulse is powerful.
21. The lab leak theory is looking more plausible each day.
22. Zero Covid is a myth.
23. Sweden ultimately performed better than most Western European nations of comparable or larger population than it.
24. Covid-19 bailout plans have incentivized many people to not work.
25.The vast majority of countries are under counting their death numbers.
26. The Federal government has limited power. Trump knew that. Biden knows it now (or at least I think he does).
27. Social distancing does help. Perhaps more so than any other initiative that has been tried.
28. The panic over Omicron is not justified based on the statistics from South Africa and the UK.
29. Nobody should ever listen to British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson.
30. ‘Two weeks to Flatten the Curve’ is the pandemic equivalent of the check is in the mail.
Source: The Week
31. Covid rules play second fiddle to so-called social justice initiatives, demonstrations and mass gatherings.
32. Thank G-d for such rational voices as Freddy Sayer (Unherd) and John Campbell.
Source: YouTube (Special Report)
Nursing Professor John Campbell : The Insider
33. Dr. Scott Atlas was correct with this limited (not full scale) lockdown strategy (focusing on the most vulnerable). His biggest problem was that he was too close to Trump and he was in a position of influence during an election year.
34. Herd Mentality is stronger than Herd Immunity
35. Vaccinations do decrease the rate of hospitalizations.
36. Sports games and outdoor political rallies were not the big super spreader events that we were told they would be.
37. Hepa Filters on planes are effective. Using them in classrooms makes sense as well.
38. A great deal of the best scientific analysis on Covid has come from India, South Africa and Israel. US institutions have been somewhat lacking.
39. T cell immunity will be the saving grace for the vast majority of the world population.
40. Covid will likely become a seasonal long term epidemic similar to the Flu which apparently has receded into the woodwork (go figure??).
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