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My first non-rant of the new year - great post! by sprack

The politicization of all of it was the most disappointing thing, but probably unavoidable and inevitable.

As one of the first people to respond in this thread, my point then and now was my objection to the demonization of Drs. Fauci and Collins and others, who were a) trying to avoid the politics as much as possible b) were only trying to save lives c) were working with information they had at the time which was rapidly evolving. Also, 20/20 hindsight is not helpful, nor will it be for the next pandemic (which I hope I never see) which will probably be as different from Covid as Covid was from the Spanish Flu or the Black Death.

If there’s someone to blame - as if that does any good - blame the politicians on all sides who went way too far in either direction.

Or better yet, do as drmurray does, and blame Davie.