The indictment of a top aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly of the National Institutes of Health, for misleading the public on COVID has kicked off a renewed effort to hold the experts accountable for dishonesty and deceit about the virus. But do we really remember the start of the pandemic? What the experts and their handmaidens in the legacy media said was true, and what definitely – allegedly – wasn’t?
Those were heady days. Information about the virus and its danger were hazy; leaders and everyone else were scared about what was to come. It can feel uncharitable to look back critically at the pronouncements and decisions made at the time considering that.
But these were not forgivable missteps, or slightly missed calculations. The failures were era- and generation-defining.
