The government management of Corona was, even on its own terms, counterproductive.
(By the way, a word for debaters: Saying someone’s policy, accomplished the very opposite of its ostensible aims is one of the most devastating arguments possible.)
No matter how helpful facemasks, gloves, goggles or the like (variously promoted at the time) may be, no one knowledgable can call them a panacea.
And yet, the unprecedented, manmade global lockdown led to supply chain breaks for hand soap, hand sanitizer, healthy food, and more (not to mention medical or quasi-medical gear itself).
In Israel, I can testify the HMO clinic bathrooms were utterly out of hand soap for months, while allowing entry to anyone wearing a facemask.
Take a moment to imagine what that means…
The very least we can say is, the sheer incompetence of regnant public health and epidemic disease control experts as demonstrated in iatragenic action is only exceeded by… their incompetence.
Are they any better than foreign policy “experts” (this writer has the right idea!) or mainstream economists (a laughingstock)?!
Of course, Hyehudi.org doesn’t care about any of this directly. My “hidden” point is about the rabbis who went along at every step and never had second thoughts until today. And what that should mean about trusting them in important loopholes and leniencies. Which should lead to independent scholarship. (Anything cheery or earthly-minded on this site is just to make the anti-clericalist medicine go down.)