Wrong. In a war you win by outsmarting other people. Maybe that's through democracy, maybe it's by moving faster, maybe it's by having better technology, maybe it's by having more technology.
This is a pandemic. A health crisis caused by a virus. In this situation you win by carefully understanding the nature of the virus and then determining what needs to happen in order to shut it down. Making rash decisions because it's "wartime" doesn't actually stop the virus. We can't blitz a virus. We have to take time to understand the consequences of our actions.
> coddle
Actually, we do have to coddle. If we squash people's concerns about the vaccine, then they just won't get it because they don't feel listened to. On the other hand, if we show people that we're taking their concerns seriously, they're more likely to go and take one of the other vaccines. Because the "unsafe" ones were pulled after all, so the ones left over have to be safe (not true, but it's going to work for a non-trivial number of people).
I don't think you're appreciating the magnitude of the error here. This kind of complacency, typical of the public health bureaucracy, has led to a large net increase in death.
