Quote (Black XistenZ @ 1 Nov 2022 00:00)
The "covid hawks" were wrong on almost everything while the "covid doves" were right on most questions surrounding the pandemic - with the efficacy of the vaccines in terms of preventing death or severe disease being the one big exception.
that's such a moronic thing to say, lol. even if it were right, which it isn't, it's the ONE thing that matters the most on which the "hawks" were right: preserving human life.
in reality though, you predictably manage to overlook a crucial "detail" that all covid "sceptics" conveniently ignore these days, which is that the "hawks" (in many nations barely so) - and the silent majority listening to reason, science, and cautions (to which you allegedly belong iirc) - prevented a complete collapse of the healthcare system early on, which could easily have resulted in even more devastating consequences both in terms of casualties as well as economic damage as a consequence thereof. the fact that science deniers and anti-vaxxers now feel in a position to claim the economic damage, precautions, and minor inconveniences were all simply unnecessary, is based upon an incredibly flawed premise.
just to inb4 the typical dishonest retort to that: no, that does NOT mean the "hawks" were therefore right on everything, and that the pandemic couldn't have been handled any better. it does not mean that with the benefit of hindsight, economic damage, communication errors, and social division could not have been prevented to a certain degree. however, it does mean that your simplistic and biased take about covid sceptics getting "most things right, apart from the one minor thing that saved countless human lives" is peak hackery.