The COVID follow-up question no reporter will ask
MacKenzieMay 12, 2021, 1:41:41 AM
| Back in January, Michael Osterholm, who's been an adviser to Joe Biden on the virus, warned that the next six to fourteen weeks would be the worst of the pandemic. We're now beyond fourteen weeks from that moment. The case numbers are down 76 percent: |
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| "I want to be so wrong on this one," Osterholm said. "I will publicly celebrate me being wrong if this [surge] doesn't happen, because I just wish we didn't have to go through this." Well, I'm sure our inquisitive media will follow up with him and give him an opportunity to celebrate publicly. They wouldn't fail to pursue a story like this just because it undermines the panickers. I mean, these are curious people, and professionals to boot! Ahem. This, by the way, is the same person who said on October 9 that Florida would be a "house on fire" within weeks because it wasn't listening to him. We know how that one turned out. You'd think after a while he'd stop and wonder: "Maybe I don't fully understand this virus. Maybe I should keep the shaming and the unnecessary panic to a minimum. Because it sure seems as if the resumption of normal life doesn't affect anything." But of course not. I'm spending a few days in the Florida panhandle. I cannot believe how (relatively) unmasked it is here compared to central Florida, where I live. And everything is fine. No overwhelmed hospitals, nothing. This, I am convinced, is why many of them don't want the masks coming off. Not because they fear a spike, but precisely because they fear nothing will happen. At which point the handful of remaining skeptical thinkers will wonder how they got snookered into all this in the first place. |