The Covid pandemic is now slowly fading into the sunset, although it may reappear with a vengeance, or then again become a seasonal infection like the flu. However, to date is has been a massive disruption to our society with very lingering effects. The purpose of this critique is to review and analyze our actions, highlight our wrong assumptions and our mistakes, so we can learn from them.
As I did the research and selection of the excerpts, I learned a great deal. First, I learned that despite thinking I was following the pandemic reasonably closely as we went through it, I missed the essence of many decisions that were thrust upon us. Second, I learned that even though I am a skeptic by experience, I found that my skepticism of what we were told by the government and the media was woefully inadequate. My skeptical nature needs to be sharpened. I see that learning as a positive as skepticism is very essential to our democracy and it is seemingly in decline. My hope is that you have a similar learning as we proceed through the series.
As of July 27, 2022, there were 6.38 million Covid deaths worldwide as reported by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The United States has 1,023,382 Covid related deaths per the same source – 16.0% of the world’s total. The current population of the world is an estimated 7.9 billion people of which 331.45 million are in the United States. That’s 4.2% of the world’s population.
The Covid data are questionable on many fronts, but few would conclude that reporting is off to the degree that it would offset the 11.8% difference. Net, as a country we did not fare well with our efforts. Improvement is needed thus calling for good critique which is the prudent starting point.
Happy Learning, Harley
To go to the series syllabus click here:COVID Pandemic Critique Syllabus To go to the book listing click here: COVID Pandemic Critique Book Listing