Covid broke our institutional reality. There's clearly something about the events of the last two years that's caused a large segment of the population to instinctively reject what we're being told by authorities of all stripes. The whole issue has been so hopelessly obfuscated by political, economic and media interests that numbers simply don't matter. They've lost our confidence. Competent leaders would realize that you aren't going to change XX% of the population's minds by coercion, "nudging," or pathologizing. Resources would have been better spent on building more health care facilities, training more medical staff, and better/cheaper rapid testing.

Two years of lockdowns, reckless spending, mandatory vaccinations, extreme media gaslighting. Soon there will be real consequences to these simplistic and heavy-handed authoritarian measures, and they're going to be of much greater significance than covid itself. And when they do come to pass the midwits will cry, "We couldn't have known!"