Did the Censors Succeed?
Commentary
These days I rarely encounter people who disagree that the pandemic policy was a disaster.
You can usually get a laugh at a cocktail party when making fun of sanitizer madness, 15 days to flatten the curve, ubiquitous plexiglass, or 6 feet of distance. The school closures are in disrepute, as are the restriction on hospital visits or the banning of funerals and weddings. Even masking seems ridiculous in retrospect.
And remember when you couldn’t get a haircut for three months? How many lives did that save?
One even encounters widespread derision at the notion that the vaccines were effective at disease blocking. People whisper in private about vaccine injury, which seems incredibly common….