To me, it's obvious there's an "appeal to authority/expertise-theatre" when there's a sense of emergency. That's one of the points of assigning authority. But

To me, it's obvious there's an "appeal to authority/expertise-theatre" when there's a sense of emergency. That's one of the points of assigning authority. But what the pandemic has showed is all the expertise in the world and all the authority in the world does not provide actual the necessary evidence to back decisions as quickly as the public alarm grows. How many pandemic have been recorded in such detail that produces evidence relevant for current situations? How many lockdowns? I mean: previous pandemics (1918 flu?) did not have to account for high speed means of transportations. Or extreme population densities. Maybe borders were more permeable in the past than they are today, but did people move as fast and in has large quantities as today?