For two years the pervasive groupthink amongst the public health profession, the media and many politicians ensured that there would be no criticism of public health policies, no matter how absurd or useless they immediately proved to be.
Lockdowns, business closures, capacity limits, closed schools and playgrounds, masks, vaccine passports, travel restrictions, mass testing and contact tracing all accomplished nothing but significant harm to the public.
More importantly, researchers and scientists mostly stayed silent — afraid of retribution from the National Institute of Health’s Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci who organized PR campaigns to disparage and impugn the credibility of anyone who criticized their mandates.