'Experts' Running The COVID Playbook Again As Mask Mandates Return
Doing what we know doesn't work
Among the innumerable negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, from school closures, lockdowns, masks and every other absurd policy, the most dangerous might have been normalization.
It's one thing to try policies that were always predestined to fail. It's another to refuse to admit those policies failed, and act as though they justify permanent restrictions. And unfortunately, that's exactly what's happened within the scientific community.
It wasn't exactly a secret, pre-COVID, that the scientific community was consumed by arrogance, hubris, and massive ego. But the pandemic revealed just how dangerous those traits are, in conjunction with credentialism and a lack of accountability. Sure enough, even in 2025, that mentality is set to harm generations to come.
The first example is Leana Wen, a CNN contributor and former head of Planned Parenthood. Wen became known during COVID for her extremism and authoritarian impulses, which included demanding that unvaccinated people be locked inside their homes during the pandemic.
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