From: tim@streater.me.uk   
      
   On 13 Feb 2024 at 10:12:08 GMT, "The Natural Philosopher"   
    wrote:   
      
   > Example: Covid was real, and it was and still is a killer. But was   
   > lockdown the appropriate reaction? Who made money selling masks whose   
   > effect seems mainly symbolic? And just why was the 'free' vaccine deemed   
   > ineffective or unsafe and the massively profit making ones deemed de rigeur?   
      
   While these are good questions, some can only be answered in hindsight.   
   Lockdown? Not sure. It was damned expensive and who knows whether on the one   
   hand it was necessary or on the other should have been brought in sooner. The   
   masks turned out to be less necessary than was feared, but it took a while to   
   understand the transmission pathways and how long the virus was transmissible   
   on surfaces such as paper and metal.   
      
   At least the gumment chose to enable the vaccine makers and then stay out of   
   their way.   
      
   --   
   Tim   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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