The US will probably never recover from this pandemic. The sociological harm done by this virus (normalizing anti-expert sentiment) is far greater than the physical harm in the long run.
They aren't.
See "Inside Job" - an excellent documentary about the 2008 financial crisis. Highly credentialed Harvard, MIT, Columbia professors produced reports for Wall Street to convince buyers to buy their toxic financial products (while collecting enormous fees).
I am all for science, but one needs to watch out for $cience.
I feel like you’re lamenting that people don’t follow your experts.
I mean look at all the experts that signed on here: https://gbdeclaration.org/
Why don’t they count?