Oh, yes. The man who wrote at the *end of February 2020*—when it was clear we would get hit—that worrying about a pandemic was "panic" by people who don't understand probability—and naturally got appointed to head the WHO social science response to COVID. White House next, obvs.https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1355217464968183810 …
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For whatever reason being optimistic & hopeful seems “dumber” than being cynical and contrarian - even when equal possibility of being wrong.
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Cynicism wears the clothing of wisdom - but they don’t fit.
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And the misplaced Hobbesian view of the public meant some journalists were eager to parrot expert claims that people were “panicking” by worrying about COVID and acting “superstitious” by wearing masks. All of which impeded mitigation and later gave Trump ammo to attack experts.
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Obviously there were many public health experts and journalists who did phenomenal work from the jump on some very complex issues, but there was definitely another group of such who seemed to see it as mainly an opportunity to be clever, condescending, and above it all.
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that clever logic has gotten far too much discussion vs public health science in determining policy etc in the pandemic
I will admit at the end of Feb 2020 I did not think it would be anything like this