Justin Hart has offered an excellent annotated list. Visit his post for more detailed descriptions of what our public health experts got wrong during COVID, along with ample links. Hint: They got everything wrong.
I’m Justin Hart — father of nine, data analyst, author of Gone Viral. I spent six years tracking COVID data professionally and ran one of the most-cited COVID data platforms during the pandemic. I’m not a crank, and this isn’t a rant. It’s an itemized bill.
The List
I’ve maintained this list for years. Every point represents something our institutions told us confidently, enforced aggressively, and got demonstrably wrong. Not “debatable.” Wrong.
Here’s the short list of everything these institutions got wrong during Covid:
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- Origin of the disease — wrong
- Transmission — wrong
- Asymptomatic spread — wrong
- PCR testing — wrong
- Fatality rate — wrong
- Lockdowns — wrong
- Community triggers — wrong
- Business closures — wrong
- School closures — wrong
- Quarantining the healthy — wrong
- Impact on youth — wrong
- Hospital overload — wrong
- Plexiglass barriers — wrong
- Social distancing — wrong
- Outdoor spread — wrong
- Masks — wrong
- Variant impact — wrong
- Natural immunity — wrong
- Vaccine efficacy — wrong
- Vaccine injury — wrong
Twenty items. Every one sourced. Every one with real consequences for real people.
That’s not a crisis of public trust. That’s a record of institutional failure.
