Just like there's January 6 revisionism from the Trumpists, there's covid revisionism. We didn't experience what we did, you see. Michael Hobbes had a brief thread on it today.
The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!
One of the most bizarre myths of these COVID revisionist books is that people like Anthony Fauci were given dictatorial powers over US policy.
Mask mandates, school closures and lockdowns were imposed by governors! The CDC issued guidance but states weren't required to comply.
US states had *very* different COVID policies and different death rates that — wow, weird coincidence — pretty closely track those differences starting in summer 2020. It feels insane to still see the argument that we aligned too closely with public health guidance when the exact opposite is true.
The last time Tim Walz was elected governor of Minnesota, he was running against a Republican MD who spewed exactly this kind of revisionist stuff, and the Republican lost in large part because of his bad stances on covid.
And now our federal "public health" infrastructure is controlled by revisionists just like him.
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