1. The medical establishment has made corona orders of magnitude worse than it needed to be.

Had we faced corona without epidemiological models, PCR tests or public health interventions, we would have been vastly better off. Nobody with eyes to see could doubt this.

2. If it weren’t for the worldwide medical fraternity & their genius interventions, corona would have been a few rough flu seasons.

Yes, hospitals would’ve been full. Yes, people would’ve died. But, we’ve had rough flu seasons before. Almost nobody noticed.

3. What are the most salient cultural memories of 1968? Leftists protests? Or the Hong Kong Flu, a worse per capita mortality event than corona has been for us? To ask these questions is to answer them.

4. For hundreds of years, medicine was held to be a field of charlatans. Doctors were more despised than lawyers. Only with the great scientific advances of the 19th and 20th c. - the germ theory of disease, vaccines, antibiotics - did the field achieve high regard.

5. Medicine has retained this prominence even as advances in the field have slowed. Even as its practitioners have engaged in scandalous pharmaceutical profiteering & poured resources into dubious projects like life extension.

6. It’s an old idea, that modern medical approaches to treatment are steadily becoming worse than the problems they solve. Still, there is a cultural and political bubble around medicine, and inflated beliefs in the capabilities and the knowledge of the medical establishment

7. The farce of corona containment has been, by far, the field’s greatest failure. If there were any justice in the world, this would burst the medical bubble & drive a wholesale reassessment of our unelected medical bureaucracies & the terrifying authority they wield over us.