There was a lot of mixed messaging rom governments, but frankly that was largely because for the first 6 months to a year we knew very little about the virus. A

There was a lot of mixed messaging rom governments, but frankly that was largely because for the first 6 months to a year we knew very little about the virus. A lot of recommendations and policy was based on best estimates and working assumptions, and some of these turned out to be wrong. Mistakes were made, lockdowns were introduced earlier or later than they should have been, assumptions about transmissibility were made based on super-spreader events that turned out to be statistical outliers. Mistakes were inevitable, I remember having a conversation with my brother back in March 2020 where we came to the conclusion that given the lack of data mistakes would be made, and these would be used by conspiracy theorists and be politicised to spread dangerous and even deadly propaganda that would get a lot of people killed. I dearly wish we had been wrong, but here we are.