[FridayoLeary]

And it was the scientists and doctors of the WHO, who denied the existence of Covid until after every country in the world had shut down. I thought covid denial was a bad thing, but you're still getting downvoted... In response to your last question i've got no idea. I don't have any confidence the vaunted scientists got it right back then either. Just look at the disasters inflicted on countries and states that imposed heavy handed and IMO largely unnecessary covid measures.

[TimorousBestie]

> And it was the scientists and doctors of the WHO, who denied the existence of Covid until after every country in the world had shut down.

Doesn’t line up with WHO’s record of events.

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-06-2020-covidtimeline

[aprilthird2021]

It's easy to say COVID measures were unnecessary when you live in a timeline where you were spared from the worst case scenario of an immediate global pandemic. The economic harm was huge, but we don't know what it would have been if we had not taken any protective measures and we didn't know back then either how dangerous the disease could be