The pandemic made the author an “expert”. The whole article amounts to “see, I was right all along!”, says the writer of articles on “economics, technology, and

The pandemic made the author an “expert”. The whole article amounts to “see, I was right all along!”, says the writer of articles on “economics, technology, and the media” (and not anything related to medicine) who read one article last year that supported his view. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The author, turns out, isn’t wrong. But they are arguably right for the wrong reasons.