"-- Experts and technocrats. It should have been a year of vindication for the scientists and public-health administrators on the frontlines of the pandemic. That's not what happened. Covid-19 was a new and complex disease, and experts required time to begin to understand it. But the public urgently needed health guidance every step of the way. Technocrats and politicians sought to offer information and advice that was authoritative and clear. Unfortunately, much of it proved to be wrong. To mask or not to mask? To close schools or keep them running? Are "breakthrough" cases common or rare? By year-end, as the seemingly endless pandemic ground relentlessly on, large numbers of the public had tuned out the health and medical establishments. During a year in which inflation blindsided the Federal Reserve chairman and the unexpectedly rapid Afghan collapse stunned the White House, confidence in the experts continued to wane." [1]
1. For Putin, OPEC and Trump, a Good Year
Walter Russell Mead. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 04 Jan 2022: A.15.
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