> Anthony Fauci has never struggled to speak his mind. But now that he has left government, he is finally speaking at least some of the truth about government p

> Anthony Fauci has never struggled to speak his mind. But now that he has left government, he is finally speaking at least some of the truth about government policies and Covid. For instance, the six-feet rule for social distancing “sort of just appeared” without a solid scientific basis. That’s one of the admissions that Members of Congress say the former National Institutes of Health potentate made this week in two days of closed-door testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. > It’s not news that the six-feet rule lacked scientific rhyme or reason. A BMJ article in August 2020 explained as much. It noted that the virus’s transmissibility depends on many factors, including ventilation, the host’s viral load and symptoms, and the duration of exposure, among other things. > Officials nonetheless promoted the arbitrary rule because they didn’t trust Americans to understand scientific nuance or, for that matter, anything. Businesses, churches and schools that weren’t forced to close had to spend money reconfiguring their operations to comply with these government guidelines. https://archive.is/2vwWT https://archive.is/2vwWT There were silver linings to COVID. One was the rise of remote and hybrid working arrangements across a much wider swatch of the economy. Another is the ruined reputation of "experts", who used "Trust the Science" as carte blanche to enact all manner of unscientific and destructive policies. The government's censorship of social media platforms, the lockdowns, middling bureaucrats becoming petty tyrants... None of this will happen again, because society will be much more skeptical of so-called "experts".