re: Dilbert Man, Clott Adams, having some vaccine regrets now

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We were all fooled to one degree or another.

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No "we" weren't. The gross overreaction to this pandemic was evident from day one. This wasn't the first respiratory virus to spread world-wide from Asia. Far from it. Not even the first this century.

But it WAS the first in a society where social media is ubiquitous, vapid corporate and cultural virtue signaling is celebrated, any degree of reasonable skepticism to the mainstream narrative is forcefully ridiculed, and corporations/media are unabashedly hyper-partisan. It was the first pandemic in any our lifetimes where society began looking for the illness under every rock...thus making the prevalence of such seem unprecedently high. That's not to say Covid-19 wasn't very much real. It was/is. It's that the societal overreaction to such was devoid of logic and anyone who was willing to consider what effects the reaction could have later down the line was able to see early on how horribly irrational such reaction would be.

Now you see more and more people express regrets, justifying it by saying "we just didn't know." There is a bit of truth to that. Largely because the information provide to the public was almost completely one-sided and had zero tolerance for discussion of contrary viewpoints. Even objectively contrary viewpoints. But most who are now having these regrets simply didn't "want to know" because that would require a modicum of critical thinking and reasonable skepticism beyond unquestionably accepting what the man/woman on TV, the mayor/governor's podium, Congress, etc told you. At the time, virtually everyone with a "public voice" denigrated you as insane for questioning the mainstream viewpoint.