On Health Officials Changing their Minds

they [public health officials] are not going to change their minds nor in all likelihood can they without internal psychological crisis. imagine the psychic baggage of realizing that you just architected the most damaging and least effective public health response in human history while endlessly grandstanding about your knowledge and insight.

— el gato malo
we've reached the "we're not even going to pretend to prove this works, just do as you're told" stage of the pandemic (Opens new window)