Lots of Freepers including me, have been saying that since March.
At least this bureaucrat in the UK has admitted his.mistakes.
We never followed the data. The best treatment regime (if used early) was dismissed for politics and a vaccine push when a vaccine may not even work.
Mask were bad. Masks might help. YOU MUST HAVE ON A MASK!
Blocking travel from areas with high infection risks was xenophobic before it was good.
Sigh.
I don’t know what to believe about this virus anymore, but I am probably as accurate at this point as the doom doctors were because I also paid attention to highly educated and experienced critics who questioned our response.
In the end, I expect those critics, pilloried by bureaucrats, democrats, republicrats, and the media, will be shown to have been far wiser about this pandemic than those we listened to.
At this point, we should hire the health director of Sweden immediately. Pay him any amount of money!
"The science" cannot tell you the best course of action in a bad situation. You have to keep options open, try multiple things and find out what works best.