> The FDA killed during the pandemic: https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/fda-devastation-during-the-pa https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/fda-devastation-during-the-pa.

> The FDA killed during the pandemic: https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/fda-devastation-during-the-pa https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/fda-devastation-during-the-pa... and continues to kill today. There are potential trade-offs where experimental treatments which fail preclude other experimental treatments that work. Ethically this is a minefield. Personally I agree that if I have a disease I'd want to take any experimental treatment that seemed like a good idea. I think people's action during the pandemic are a bit more responsible for additional deaths than were FDA delays. : Rapid tests are actually quite sensitive during days ~2-4 of illness when patients are most infectious. Was this known beforehand, or only discovered post-hoc? From your blog: > Regarding drugs, particularly drugs for people who are already effectively dead, like me, we should be moving closer to a surgical model. This seems like a good idea. Though there have been some really bad surgical interventions (lobotomy, sex assignment surgery for intersex conditions or botched circumcisions).