"Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it will be with the closures and lockdowns of 2020-21, someday. "

I don't think so.

Everyone seems to forget that the purpose of the lockdown was to make time to prepare enough ventilators for those that the disease would effect seriously. It definitely went on for way longer than it needed to I'm not complaining.

I also think the whole covid experience has had an overall positive effect on society. It has been a negative effect for people like landlords or businesses owners who exploited their employees.

Things have been shaken up, and the situation is still developing from that input.

To be fair, the scientists aren't wrong.

Alcohol is a pretty bad drug and probably wouldn't be legalized without its history.

Lots of drunk people get violent. Alcoholics can die from simply being dried out. Alcohol is a drug habit that's really hard to shake.

That doesn't mean prohibition was correct. However, the negative effects of alcohol are quite well documented.

Scientists are science experts. Scientific data should help inform policy decisions. We can’t skip that step.

This comparison of prohibition and Covid-19 lockdowns is apples to oranges to say the least. Drinking alcohol is a choice. Getting Covid-19 is not. Death from alcohol takes years of abuse. Death from Covid-19, for some, can take weeks. Vaccines are not magical, they are excellent applied biological science. So are masks, social distancing, and lockdowns. I would like to see enforced vaccination, because your freedom to stay unvaccinated conflicts directly with my freedom to stay alive and healthy.