It’s abundantly clear now that pretty much everything that the public has been told and continues to be told is between untrue and downright lies.
I offer as a shortlist that:
PCR mass testing reasonably reliably distinguishes infected and infectious people from others;
that masks reduce transmission of respiratory viruses;
that transmission of infection in the absence of symptoms is an important contribution to epidemic spreading;
that lockdowns as executed reduce hospitalization and deaths;
that no matter how small the remaining susceptible population and no matter that virtually no people who, if infected, might die remain unvaccinated, the position is perilous;
that no pharmaceutical treatments are available;
that variants are different enough to warrant border closures and require new vaccines;
that the gene-based vaccines are safe and effective;
that “vaccine passports” will increase safety while having no material impacts on freedom of choice in a liberal democracy.
It is impossible to believe that intelligent, well-connected and well-briefed senior advisers to governments don’t know that almost all, if not all, of the above are simply not true.
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