Three stages of public health in a pandemic crisis:

1. Panic myth: we lie to not scare you.

2. Incompetence. We do not understand our field (viruses in air) so we get mitigations all wrong.

3. Later, we follow our political masters and provide scientific cover to get you back to work without protection because we are too stupid to pivot to actually mitigating anything.

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