we need more investigation to see where this falls on the spectrum. the wall street journal editorial board wrote a piece on this a couple days ago when we first got wind of it. it says americans and the rest of the world need to learn to live with an ever-mutating virus. so do our politicians. i remember talking to you during the lockdowns. you felt that they were in an economic mistake or a hardship that didn t balance out the protective element of them. what do you think now? i think the same thing. lockdowns are an evidence of policy failure. we have a lot better ways to deal with an infectious disease outbreak than locking things down and ignore the science. it makes it very hard for the public to how to risk calculate, how to do harm reduction if they think everything is a risk. we lost that opportunity early