Thread by @therealarod1984

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Zero Covid is a failed, impossible, idiotic "strategy"

"Covid-19 was never an existential threat. But we have behaved like it was, racking up trillions in extra debt & trashing norms of liberal democracy that might not quickly, if ever, return."

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"Future generations will inherit a less free, more embittered society, where vaccination status, attitudes to compulsory masking and lockdowns divide people as much as class and race have before."

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None of this goes into the models experts have used to advocate Zero Covid. In their models, humans are drones incapable of making their own risk assessments but fortunate to be governed by wise, selfless leaders w/ access to unlimited central bank $

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Reason & critical thinking have taken a back seat to fear in recent months. We should learn from this episode, though. Worse pandemics will emerge...but we need to learn how to fight pandemics without permanently altering our way of life.

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