Covid fallacies, part two

The dramatic conclusion

Last week I talked about some of the most common kinds of fallacious reasoning and weak arguments I encountered from Covid hawks during the pandemic. These included the tendency to treat lockdowns as unfalsifiable, the pipe dream that “zero Covid” could be accomplished with a “short, sharp lockdown”, and a profound reluctance to acknowledge secular factors which impact upon the rate of transmission and serious illness. In this article, I’ll talk about a few more, including how Sweden complicated the simple pro-lockdown perspective; the shifting stated motivations for locking down throughout the pandemic; and the rationale behind vaccine passes.