I’m biased as it was my obsession but ppl don’t get that 2020-2022 irrevocably broke all norms of politics You can just do things. Ds allowed employers to fire ppl for not getting a vaccine. Rs now cheer ICE raids of unthinkably bad optics if done in 2017 (1/2)

What happens when you disrupt a norm for too long. Devastating.

A reminder that New Zealanders were prevented from returning to their country for years.

It's incredible to me how little interest there is in reflecting on the degree to which so many of our current social and economic problems may have been created or exacerbated by shutting down the world for two years in a futile attempt to eradicate SARS-CoV-2.

Well, at least no one got Covid, I guess?

Maybe stigmatizing socializing for over a year in response to a respiratory virus pandemic was an enormous mistake.

The intense certainty that she’s right, the all- consuming attention to her grievance, - ironically the social isolation of the pandemic probably fed those traits She became defined by it. That generation really got the worst of it.

Absolutely a pandemic response.

Five years ago today. A beautiful graph.

What a disaster that, flying in the face of the data we now have from Sweden and other states that opted for *less* stringent lockdowns rather than *harder, faster*, the British state should reach this moronic conclusion. This is collective face-saving and motivated reasoning.

Though I yield to nobody in my view that BoJo was just about the least appropriate person to have as PM when Covid struck, I’m sceptical of the Hallet report’s claim that had he locked down a week earlier 23,000 lives would have been saved. First, it’s easy to be wise after the

For me the Covid inquiry stuff just stirs horrible memories: prancing scientists, hectoring officials, panicked ministers, shrieky TV hacks, useless masks (which the megabucks baroness endorses) and my dying brother. I'd rather forget all that hell.

Fact check: not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in the UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its sham covid inquiry.

Jonathan Sumption on the Covid Inquiry

The lead of the UK government’s COVID inquiry said she’s bad with graphs, which seems extremely relevant when your entire job is using graphs to decide if the government’s COVID policies were effective

If you're an elected head of government, you should be forced to live in the nation you led for at least 20 years after you leave power, so you can reap the consequences of the policy choices you made.