In a temporary crisis, the mandate is to enact policies that calm panic, even if they aren't just or scientific (and they usually aren't). A major complaint ab

In a temporary crisis, the mandate is to enact policies that calm panic, even if they aren't just or scientific (and they usually aren't). A major complaint about COVID is that the panic came from the top down, as a justification for doing the unjust and unscientific things the people in charge wanted to do anyway. Nobody is really addressing the truth or lack of truth of that statement, we're all just slinging mud.