Ten months on and I keep hearing the inane slogan “Follow the science”. But the best medical advice is floundering and is still no more than the basic common sense advice of “avoid being infected”. The simple reality is that the best our current science has to offer was unable to prevent the pandemic and is unable to curtail it or bring it under control. The Covid-19 virus cannot, at least for now, be eradicated.
While the medical fraternity is doing great things in treating those infected and is expending enormous money and energy in finding a vaccine, the epidemiological fraternity has failed spectacularly in both preventing the pandemic and in controlling or curtailing the pandemic. But more damaging is the illusion they promote that they are in control. Pretending you can when you cannot is bordering on gross negligence. Essentially they have nothing more to offer than the best advice available at the time of the Black Death almost 700 years ago.
I begin to suspect that epidemiology is more about bean-counting than about science. The political process which has relied on these bean-counters has vacillated between cowardice and courage.
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