I suspect SARSCoV2 maximal suppression (zerocovid) will go down in Western history as a moral failure symbolised by China's excesses. This may well be partly unfair, in particular to those who argued in good faith for temporary maximal viral suppression in the pre-vaccine era.
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As events are unfolding, the situation is often complex, grey and confusing, but after a while, when the dust settles and the fear recedes, a sanitised and simplified narrative of right and wrong tends to take over as the public perception, and becomes 'history'.
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The good news is that with the exception of the most ideologically committed actors in any fight, it is generally possible for most to pretend (and convince themselves) they actually always were on the right side of history.
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Already now, it is becoming increasingly uncommon to find anyone acknowledging they were fighting for indefinite school closures.
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