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The thing you miss, and is the most important part of an actual retrospective is to put covid into context. Focusing myopically on only covid outcomes to the li

The thing you miss, and is the most important part of an actual retrospective is to put covid into context. Focusing myopically on only covid outcomes to the literal exclusion of virtually all other issues was one of the big fuckups made. Believe it or not, even back in April of 2020 there was millions of other problems besides covid. Examining only covid outcomes is not a retrospective at all. Examining the sum of all outcomes for all things holistically is a retrospective. And doing that you only arrive at one conclusion: literally every single thing society chose to do for covid was wrong. We could have done nothing at all and been better off. There is more to living than the avoidance of exactly one specific disease. Anything that attempts to focus on only covid outcomes is not a retrospective. It’s a circle jerk.

ksaun 3y ago
(I had thought I was in agreement with your overall point until I reached this part: > "literally every single thing society chose to do for covid was wrong. We could have done nothing at all and been better off." Perhaps this is only indicative of my own failings, but the absolute certainty you express here led me to greatly devalue your opinion and conclude that engaging with you wouldn't likely lead to an interesting discussion on the main topic. (E.g., Do you really believe that nothing that any aspect of society did related to covid positively affected the outcome?) (Somehow, apparently, I still felt compelled to comment on this tangential/meta topic. Maybe I'm imagining that you might find my reaction useful or interesting or maybe I'm driven by internal factors, such as guilt at dismissing your perspective because of a couple of your specific word choices.))