When Being Right Isn’t Enough

One lesson to be learned from the Covid era is that the truth simply doesn’t carry any weight against elite fads.

Over the weekend, the Department of Energy announced that its own investigation into the matter yielded the conclusion that Covid-19 was most probably released from the virology lab in Wuhan. I’m sure I had the same thought everyone else did: If we blindfold a kid and give him a stick to beat Anthony Fauci with, will the good doctor burst open and reveal nothing on the inside but thousands of doses of hydroxychloroquine?

Oh, just me?

In recent weeks there has been a barrage of news confirming that the libs were wrong, and the freak conservatives were right, at least on the important questions. Mask mandates are useless, all the evidence says. Natural immunity is just as protective as the vaccine, or more so, against serious Covid outcomes. And now another government agency admits that the lab leak probably did happen.

I suppose it’s some consolation to have late acknowledgement that we weren’t crazy during the last three years. But I can’t get those years back. Neither can my kids get those developmental hours back when they could have been taught by unmasked teachers.