Six Years After '15 Days To Slow The Spread,' The Data Proves COVID Policies Were A Historic Failure

Six Years After '15 Days To Slow The Spread,' The Data Proves COVID Policies Were A Historic Failure

It's now been six full years since "15 Days to Slow the Spread" changed the world. In one of the worst policy decisions in US history, the expert class, led by Anthony Fauci, advised President Trump to shut down the country to stop a highly infectious respiratory virus. This decision was made in part due to misinformation from the World Health Organization, which had just breathlessly reported that 3.4 percent of people who got COVID would die. …

Covid six years on

Six years ago today, also a Friday, was the day when the first big shutdowns hit in America. The following Monday we had a faculty meeting at the law school where we were told that the rest of the semester was going to be conducted via Zoom. I had never heard of Zoom until that day, so my expertise in handling this technology was possibly suboptimal. Six years later, I have a keen appreciation of how the so-called Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19…