So, an article citing the US response to Covid as evidence that society has entered a "death spiral". With no mention of climate change? Written by epidemiologi

So, an article citing the US response to Covid as evidence that society has entered a "death spiral". With no mention of climate change? Written by epidemiologists? Ah, the second author is John Ioannidis, who during Covid was put forward an anti-lockdown position forcefully and published a series of studies which scientists considered bad. I kept an eye on the debate and think he wound-up producing dubious claims of covid having a much lower fatality than was the case. That's not to say I think the US responded well to Covid, that's big debate. But the "death spiral" argument can't help sounding a bit aggrieved here, even if many things threaten to make things worse in this society today; climate, pollution generally, rising inequality (that rose before-and-after covid), the thread of nuclear war (MAD has worked so but doesn't seem like a good long term plan) etc.