If the COVID hysteria teaches us anything -- and the full measure of its lessons are many -- it is that good ideas are not improved while bad ideas survive and are pursued ever more fanatically. Meanwhile, intelligent critics of whatever is the current official orthodoxy, who should be prized and consulted, are instead demonised, circumvented, shunned and punished. What chance, do you think, this wisdom will be absorbed the next time mass panic sets in?
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