When the experts were wrong
One of the most common retorts lockdown sceptics hear is “How can lockdowns be wrong when the whole world is doing them?” And it appears to be one that carries some weight. We sceptics can point to the countries and US states that didn’t lockdown, or did so very lightly, and did no worse health-wise, and often better, than those that did (with none of the terrible collateral damage), but our point still doesn’t appear to land. It seems that by and large the public assess that the ‘experts’ all across the globe have decided lockdowns work, and so they must work. We might respond that if lockdowns worked why aren’t there a thousand medical text books on the veracity of them (as opposed to zero); but perhaps we need to change tack. What if we pointed out how the ‘experts’ of the past sometimes got it horribly, ridiculously, outrageously, dreadfully, appallingly wrong! So perhaps our current 'experts' are wrong too. You never know. So, join me on a journey into the fragility of hum