From WSJopinion: The top-down, Covid-19 diktats envisioned a tidy stay-at-home world completely divorced from the reality of most people’s lives, writes MaryAnastasiaOG
History suggests that humans learn as much, or more, from flops as from successes. It follows that Covid-19 lockdown policies present a teaching moment. In Latin America the lessons go well beyond the domain of infectious diseases to the realm of all-out government failure.
Let’s acknowledge that coronavirus statistics are far from perfect. Weak public-health systems in the region make it difficult to measure rates of infection and fatalities accurately. And that’s if the truth is even an objective.
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