From JC<\/p>\n
Speaking of the Washington Post, the paper also ran an unintentionally hilarious pandemic performance review yesterday, or maybe it\u2019s a limited hangout, or a partial sideways apology, or something, headlined \u201cHow We Got Covid\u2019s Risk Right But the Response Wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
See? They were right, even though they were wrong. More Orwellian double-think! It\u2019s all so very, very nuanced.<\/p>\n
The article was labeled an \u201canalysis,\u201d and authored by Bloomberg business commentator and former Harvard Business Review director Justin Fox, who apparently drew the short straw for having to frame the paper\u2019s abject covid failures and hysterical fear-mongering as \u201csuccesses\u201d \u2014 successes, that is, if you squint really hard and look at it in just the right light. And also backwards through a telescope.<\/p>\n
Justin got off to a terrific start by immediately explaining he was qualified to cover covid since 2020 even though he has \u201cno background in epidemiology or even health journalism,\u201d since \u201cI can multiply, divide and make charts.\u201d<\/p>\n
My son Luke, who just turned thirteen, can also multiply, divide, and he makes great charts. I guess we\u2019re all experts now!<\/p>\n
Obviously feeling very generous, Justin credited himself for his 2020 estimate of a 1% covid fatality rate, since he didn\u2019t fall for the obviously-wrong CDC and W.H.O. and their much higher 2-3% estimates. Of course, one percent is a chucklesome exaggeration all by itself, but the rest of the article swelled with even more belly laughs, like Justin\u2019s claim that the CDC\u2019s covid death estimates were \u201calmost certainly undercounts, because in the early days the lack of testing meant many Covid-caused deaths were attributed to other maladies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hahaha! I\u2019ve personally reviewed hundreds of covid death certificates and coroner reports. My favorites are the covid gunshot wounds, covid tumbles off of roofs, and covid motorcycle accidents, but the great variety of covid nursing home trip-and-falls comes in at a close second.<\/p>\n
Justin also quoted Bill Gates, even though he\u2019s not a medical professional or a scientist. At least he tried to credit whatever dumb thing Bill was saying. Justin labeled the software billionaire a \u201cwell-informed amateur epidemiologist.\u201d Hahaha! You really can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n
Justin even claimed lockdowns \u201cseem to have saved lives when implemented early enough.\u201d We just need to do them earlier. If only we could implement lockdowns before pandemics start. I wonder whether Justin thought of that idea.<\/p>\n
But anyway, after all that, Justin got down to brass tacks, the hideous point of the awful apology tour. After congratulating himself so many ways, and whole expressing great magnanimity and praiseworthy open-mindedness, Justin ultimately allowed that \u201cthe US did an awful job of balancing Covid\u2019s risks with the costs of fighting the disease,\u201d and even conceded that Sweden \u201cended up with one of the most successful and sustainable Covid management efforts among Western countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
How about that? Sadly, Sweden need not apply to the Washington Post to get its reputation back. This brief, footnoted admission is probably as much credit as Sweden will ever get, even though it deserves to be included in the title of every textbook about pandemic management from here on out. Still, the Nordic country is enjoying the best revenge, the quiet victory of being right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From JC Speaking of the Washington Post, the paper also ran an unintentionally hilarious pandemic performance review yesterday, or maybe it\u2019s a limited hangout, or a partial sideways apology, or something, headlined \u201cHow We Got Covid\u2019s Risk Right But the … Continue reading