Liberalism vs. Scienctism – Mary Carmen Mead

Stephen Macedo and Francis Lee write In Covid ’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed us.

They say the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was a disaster, but we need a reckoning.

Elitism is not the only reason experts failed to weigh the costs of Covid policies, they say.

If elites are more aware of their class biases moving forward, the policies they develop or endorse could help the little guy they promise to protect.

Lee and Macedo : Several tenets of basic rationality evaporated under the stress of the Covid onslaught.

Public trust in scientists declined, distrust in healthcare providers, they say.

They say leaders relied more on fear-mongering and deception than on honest communication.

The project of self-government faces serious danger if we can’t tolerate dissenting scientists, journalists, academics.

The authors cite various studies, from America and across several countries, that found that NPIs and pandemic restrictions “reduced Covid infection rates.” Still, these studies and others have yet to find that.

One would think lower transmission of disease translates to lower death rates from that disease.