Re: remember covid?

On 3/17/2025 7:06 PM, john larkin wrote:

Perhaps it's just the optics of it looking like the flip was done
covertly rather than the kind of clearly self-serving flip-flopping
politicians tend to do out in the open, the latter's a more honest kind
of lying I guess.

 In electronic design, it's useful to stay confused and change your
mind a lot, in the early design stages. Stagger around the infinite
solution space. But then you have to switch to the brutally
disciplined, make no mistakes implementation mode. Not many people are
comfortable doing both.
 In electronic design, as in hard sciences like math and physics, you
eventually find out if you were right. In the soft and fuzzy studies,
you may never know.
 In the case of covid, it was politically forbidden to insult the
Chinese by suggesting the lab leak idea, even though it was about
1000:1 the probable origin of the virus. Politics swamped "science."
 

The bulk of the evidence seems to be from early 2020, it must have been a suck to be one of the like, five people working in a capacity for the first Trump administration who felt "politically forbidden" to say pretty much any nonsense that came to mind.
The rewards surely would have been lavish for speaking out then but I guess the threat of the Woke Mob Assassins was too much to reckon with for the academics in question.