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> In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions, sometimes in
by xdennis 5y ago
> In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions, sometimes in the absence of rigorous science supporting them. That was understandable at the time.
The fact that they were enacted with such zeal in the absence of rigorous science is why some/many people don't want them removed now. What was instituted without science cannot be removed by science.
If anything, the same emotional manipulation must be used. They used to say "we have to lock up if only to save one life". Now it should be "we need to go back to normal if only to save one child from killing himself from isolation".