So the latest schtick on the left is to claim that the experts were wrong - not by totally overestimating the Covid-19 threat, by promoting ridiculous false models, by recommending useless masks and lockdowns, by believing in the CCP propaganda.
No, the mistake was to follow "the science" and admit that MASKS ARE USELESS ... a fact confirmed by numerous studies but the leftists are still in denial about!
https://lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/what-on-earth-happened-with-covid
They now blame experts who perfectly KNEW that masks don't matter and CORRECTLY stated that they are actually harmful for not recommending masks right from the start 🙄😖
And the worst part about this? We now have tons of data AND studies that show that masks didn't make any difference in the spread of the virus.
This Oxford study found that there is no correlation between government restrictions and the number of infections and deaths:
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus-government-response-tracker
Data from early June 2021 shows that the US states with the least restrictions had lower numbers of infections and lower death rates than the states with the most severe restrictions.
There is not a single country or region that experienced a drop in infections following a mask mandate:
In short, they have ZERO evidence to suggest that mask mandates earlier would have made a positive difference.