Science and COVID-19 Policies

A reader notes: I think you are wrong when you suggest that no one with adequate credentials in science disputes the current Covid policies.

Well, I have no access to the discussions that happen at the top of the “food chain” at the CDC, and the many other bodies that create public health policy all around the world. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were disagreements.

In fact, it is “disagreements” that form the platform on which science takes place.  Studies are performed, and their results are written up and peer-reviewed by experts whose job is to, if possible, refute them. If there are no valid refutations, the results are published and become part of the accepted science on the subject.

Also, it’s easy to imagine disagreements when it comes to factoring in the intangibles of things like the closing of businesses and schools: financial ruin, the stunting of social development, etc.

I WOULD be surprised if there were top minds who hold the beliefs of the anti-vaxxers, e.g., that the vaccines are killing scads of people, that the pandemic is an attempt on the government’s part to control the population, that masks, social distancing, and quarantines are worthless, that there is a conspiracy within the healthcare industry to overreport the numbers for financial gain, that this all is the work of Bill Gates and George Soros to reduce the population of Earth, that government has no right to take measures to protect its citizens, etc.