Political Infection

"This trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men--even able and extraordinary men--can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination."
--Judge Dan Haywood (Judgment at Nuremberg)

Nobel laureate Michael Levitt of Stanford discusses the near total abdication of science during the pandemic.

On the "same as bad flu" - with a population fatality rate approx 0.04 to 0.05% (or ~500 in a million people) over the season - it is actually pretty much the de facto impact of a bad flu.
Argument against is: "the lockdown magicks kept it low" - but this is not evidence-based... pic.twitter.com/Z5Q0eO81lA

— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) June 29, 2020

"In many places, the politics has infected the science--certainly in the USA."

Quite possibly, it will be this phenomenon--the political infection not the biological one--that will be the primary focus of forthcoming analysis for years to come.