Whether you think COVID-19 was a bad cold, a bad flu, or a mini-pandemic, I think it is clear by now that a global lockdown of 3 billion people in response was a huge and costly overreaction to it. The “pandemic” (which caused detectable excess deaths in no more than a dozen nations) now largely in the rear mirror, was at the very most still no worse than the Influenza pandemics of 1957-1958 and 1969 which we coasted through without even a thought of similar measures. There was nothing once-in-a-century about the disease, but only about the imagination-driven response to it. Why is that? Why was … Continue reading This Has Been the First Global Infodemic of the Information Age — But Are We Now Immune?