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        Indeed, they are pathetic manginas.   
      
       To write about a much more intellectually stimulating topic, Jeff   
   Jacoby writes about a COVID mea culpa.   
      
      
   A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins   
   A key figure in the government’s COVID-19 response admits that he was   
   willfully blind.   
   By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 21, 2024, 3:00 a.m.   
      
      
   Dr. Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of   
   Health, at a 2021 ceremony where Vice President Kamala Harris got a dose   
   of the COVID-19 vaccine.   
   Dr. Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of   
   Health, at a 2021 ceremony where Vice President Kamala Harris got a dose   
   of the COVID-19 vaccine.ANNA MONEYMAKER/NYT   
   It comes three years too late. But Francis Collins, the former head of   
   the National Institutes of Health, has finally admitted that the   
   COVID-19 lockdowns caused a massive amount of harm — harm to which he   
   and other government public-health experts, such as Anthony Fauci of the   
   National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were oblivious   
   because they were obsessed with doing things their way.   
   The mea culpa came last summer during a conversation hosted by Braver   
   Angels, an organization that promotes dialogue among Americans with   
   sharply different ideologies and political loyalties. Collins, who as   
   NIH director played a central role in shaping Washington’s response to   
   COVID-19, was paired with Wilk Wilkinson, a Minnesota trucking manager   
   and podcast host who strongly opposed how government officials addressed   
   the pandemic. The 90-minute exchange, moderated by Boston College   
   professor Martha Bayles, was recorded six months ago but only recently   
   attracted attention when excerpts were posted on social media.   
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   The whole conversation was interesting, but one segment in particular   
   was jaw-dropping. Collins described with remarkable candor just how   
   narrow-minded, how willfully myopic, he and other high-level public   
   health officials had been as they dealt with the crisis.   
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   “As a guy living inside the Beltway, feeling the sense of crisis, trying   
   to decide what to do in some situation room in the White House with   
   people who had data that was incomplete, we weren’t really thinking   
   about what that would mean to Wilk and his family in Minnesota a   
   thousand miles away from where the virus was hitting so hard,” confessed   
   Collins, who retired from the NIH at the end of 2021. “We weren’t really   
   considering the consequences in communities that were not New York City   
   or some other big city.”   
   That was a stunning admission. What he said next was even more scandalous.   
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   “If you’re a public health person and you’re trying to make a decision,   
   you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that   
   is something that will save a life. Doesn’t matter what else happens. So   
   you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You   
   attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s   
   lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way   
   that they never recover from.”   
   “Collateral damage,” said Wilkinson.   
   “Collateral damage,” Collins agreed. He and his colleagues were locked   
   in what he now concedes was the “public health mindset” — a monomaniacal   
   approach that blinded them to the injuries they were causing. “A lot of   
   us had that mindset, and that was really unfortunate.”   
   Was it ever.   
   As early as March 2020, Fauci recommended a nationwide lockdown and   
   called for a “dramatic diminution of the personal interaction” in daily   
   activities. He warned that “life is not going to be the way it used to   
   be in the United States,” while insisting that was “best for the   
   American public.” Collins said at the time that the only correct   
   approach was “one that most people would find to be too drastic because   
   otherwise it is not drastic enough.”   
   Now, of course, it is far too late to mitigate any of the pain endured   
   by millions of Americans hurt by the government’s high-handed edicts and   
   recommendations. Those curbs and controls began with the declaration of   
   a federal emergency and travel ban, which in turn spurred many states to   
   order their own restrictions.   
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   The coast-to-coast lockdown destroyed tens of millions of jobs and at   
   least 200,000 small businesses. It exacerbated numerous social ills,   
   worsened mental illness, and took a deadly toll in missed cancer   
   diagnoses and untreated heart disease. The prolonged school closures   
   inflicted unprecedented damage on children. The social distancing and   
   mask mandates were enforced with a ruthlessness that at times turned   
   despotic. And countless men and women — from ordinary citizens to noted   
   epidemiologists to elected state officials — found themselves demonized,   
   censored, or shunned for challenging those who attached “zero value” to   
   their concerns.   
   All this damage was caused not by the pandemic but by politicians who   
   abdicated their judgment and left it to public-health experts. Whether   
   out of panic, pigheadedness, or perversity, they declined to balance   
   costs against benefits, a basic function of policymaking. Instead, they   
   insisted they would “follow the science” — as though scientists were   
   endowed with an infallible road map to navigate COVID’s complex   
   interplay of disease, economics, education, psychology, and politics in   
   a nation of 330 million people.   
   The great economist and social historian Thomas Sowell has often   
   observed that “there are no solutions, there are only tradeoffs.” That   
   is a fundamental reality in all policymaking. There are pros and cons to   
   everything government does. For officials responding to the pandemic,   
      
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