'Dập dịch 10 ngày'

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Florida governor Ron DeSantis advises against trusting elites who justify lockdowns and other Covid-19 restrictions by pointing to ‘The science.‘ Two slices:

The Covid-19 pandemic (đại dịch) represented a test of elites (phép thử đối với giới tinh hoa) in the U.S., from public-health experts (chuyên gia y tế công) to the corporate media. The results have been disappointing (kết quả đáng thất vọng). Policy makers who bucked the elites and challenged the narrative have been proven right to do so.

To begin with, highly publicized epidemiological models (mô hình dịch tễ học) were as consequential (do hậu quả, do kết quả, là kết quả lôgic của; tự phụ, tự mản, tự đắc) as they were wrong. The model produced by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London—which forecast millions of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. without mitigation efforts—sparked panic among public-health elites and served as the pretext for lockdowns throughout the U.S. and Great Britain. The lockdowns failed to stop the virus but did a great deal of societal damage along the way—damage that a more targeted approach, seeking to reduce total harms, would have been able to avoid (and did, in places like Sweden and Florida).

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Perhaps most damaging to public trust was the public-health campaign urging “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” This short-term mitigation, we were told, was necessary to buy time to prepare hospitals for any patient surges. But that reasonable aim was soon transformed into a lockdown-until-eradication approach that left no end in sight for most Americans. Going from “save the hospitals” to “zero Covid” represents one of the greatest instances in history of moving the goal post.

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