Everything is a mixed bag of good and bad. In fact this pandemic will probably save a lot more lives during the next pandemic in terms of preparations etc.
It’s also been great for remote work. No need for additional hand-wringing.
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There is no silver lining and the next pandemic will play out raw, just like this one. Antivaxers will blame it on Bill Gate's son and 6G. That is because of human stupidity - it's immutable and ever present.
So my hope is that science will come up with better vaccines quickly and natural selection will trim off the Enlightened to a more tolerable level.
Hopefully “the next pandemic” will not be like this one at all. Because how “the experts” handled this one was shamefully wrong. At virtually every decision point these “experts” did the exact wrong thing. From years of school closures to two years of forced masks to intentionally frightening the daylights out of people. They did everything wrong.
History will not look fondly at what was done. I hope to god we never repeat this massive mistake.
How else would an someone, expert or not, respond to an contagious airborne virus other than masks and closing schools/offices??
For one thing how about being open and honest about your own publicly available data . Maybe start by clearly articulating the actual risks of Covid instead of letting the media fly away with garbage like “4% kill rate”. To this day people still parrot back “Covid kills 4% of people who get it” when the actual rate is several orders of magnitude lower, even with OG Covid.
That would be a start. Hiding facts and data that goes against your narrative and then labeling people who point said stuff out as conspiracy theorists is not cool.
They would update their opinions when they received new facts. They would also make a bigger effort to acquire new facts.
To judge the way the pandemic has been handled, you have to be an expert yourself. Because right now it's like telling a physicist how stupid his theory is while you're flipping his burger at BK. Sure, their theory may sound stupid to you, but that is your problem.
> frightening the daylights out of people
Yeah, infantilize the populations, shield them from reality, tell them "don't worry, Karen!" Virus will surely take notice and stop being so murderous.