This is an excellent example of someone who doesn't understand how health science works:
Damien Grant: Overwhelming evidence shows I was the worst prognosticator on the impact of Covid
Despite being consistently wrong, they're still sure they're right.
Quote:
|
By locking down our economy we were conducting an experiment. An unfortunate experiment, even, although critically with informed and near universal consent. What was the downside risk of this gamble?
|
This is particularly stark.
We didn't conduct an experiment. We acted. Circumstances compelled us to act, inaction itself being an action with consequences.
We used health science to decide on the course of action to take, because we have a long track record of using its methods in our decision making processes with effective results.
While for most of us the nuance of a pandemic and how to deal with it was something we were just becoming aware of as a thing to deeply consider, there was already a large body of knowledge available with practitioners trained and skilled at applying that knowledge, the results of their efforts affording them positions of authority.
But there are no shortage of folks like this who weigh their own insight equally against that of any such disciplined efforts.