I'll use scare quotes all day long to describe the "experts" who pushed all that nonsense covid public policy. I didn't vote for them. They did nothing to earn my respect. I was just told I had to shut off my brain and follow their divine edicts no matter what nonsense they spouted. And if I didn't agree with what they said, I was labeled an alt-right wacko grandma killer.

These covid "experts" lied, manipulated the narrative, hid data, played politics, ignored data, and coerced media and big tech to play along. They silenced and attempted to discredit any colleague who went against their narrative--no matter how qualified or expert that colleague was.

I trust all kinds of experts from lawyers to water quality folks. Experts are always needed. But once you start lying and bending the truth the way the covid "experts" did... you lose the right to be considered an expert.

Nobody gets to tell me or anybody who gets to be an actual expert. That title is earned, not pushed by some authority figure and a bunch of hysterical people on social media.

I find it depressing how many people still buy into the narrative these "experts" pushed. It has nothing to do with tribalism or politics--these "experts" fucked up big time and caused incalculable damage to society that will haunt us all for decades to come. In short, Covid "experts" can rot in hell. And mark my words, what I just wrote will become the mainstream opinion soon enough.

You and I were told by “experts” that amalgams of B+ rated mortgages could be, in combination, AAA securities.

You and I were told by “experts” that SH had WMD and that the brief war would cost about 400M.

Yes, I hope my scare quotes do, indeed, say something about me.

The fact that the weather forecast is sometimes wrong doesn't mean you should listen to your best friend about whether to pack an umbrella. Demanding that experts be right all the time is unrealistic. And damning all experts because some used their authority to lie is sub-optimal.

Then perhaps those “experts” shouldn’t be making broad, far reaching, incredibly costly public policy? Especially ones as incredibly destructive as what was enacted for covid.

All the crap these “experts” pushed was the exact opposite of what was in tons of different pandemic plans. It was all unproven and untested. Making us all in unconsenting research subjects.

Policy is extremely different from engineering. Would you accept “policy experts”?

I don't expect policy experts to have all the answers, just as I don't expect physicists to be able to reconcile quantum theory with gravity. Some fields are harder to predict than others.