> But so many people act like the response should have been perfect. No, no one is demanding "perfect" here, just a media and governmental infrastructure that

> But so many people act like the response should have been perfect. No, no one is demanding "perfect" here, just a media and governmental infrastructure that responds to changing data to accurately inform the public and enact policies which properly balance the risks of the virus with the potential harms of the intervention. Instead what we're getting is constant overhyping of the threat (e.g. emphasizing that the % of children being hospitalized by the Delta variant is higher as a way of downplaying the reduced hospitalizations in the older, vaccinated population) to support various power grabs like restricting freedom of movement and assembly, mandating pharmaceutical interventions, and consolidating the economy into the hands of large, entrenched corporations. The fact that this pandemic is nowhere near the level of 1918's and yet we are blithely accepting the proposition "we can never go back to normal" should be giving everyone serious pause right now.