Guest Post by Alex Berenson
And why must we listen to them, or even pretend to, anymore? They don’t share the same risk-reward calculus as the rest of us.
Michael Osterholm has Covid.
That’s not the interesting part.
You may remember Osterholm. If not: he’s an Minneapolis epidemiologist who is widely quoted on Covid, helped advise Joe Biden’s transition team, and runs a epidemic policy research center at the University of Minnesota. He’s a big kahuna in public health.
And when the epidemic began three years ago, Osterholm seemed briefly to be among the more rational voices. In March 2020, he wrote a prescient op-ed in the Washington Post titled “Facing Covid-19 reality: a national lockdown is no cure.”
But Osterholm did not stay calm for long. Five months later, he and another writer demanded not just that lockdowns continue but that the federal government require them nationally – and tighten them:
