WSJ: Lockdown Made The Pandemic Far Worse Than Necessary

Agree.

   WSJ is, of course, right to say that the pandemic became politicized. I'd say: mainly by the left, as usual, with the right pushing back--and, at times, going too far. And, yet again, non-progressives were right. Because: progressivism politicizes everything. That's not to deny that every faction tends to do that to some extent. But it's the hallmark of the PC left. And the more radical a faction becomes, the more it tends to do this. And progressives have gone whole-hog PC. They've turned it up to 11.

   Nobody blames people for honest errors. But the contemporary American left has gone far beyond excusable degrees of political blindness / dogmatism.

   This is yet another test case: it has seemed clear for quite some time that we should have put a strong emphasis on protecting the vulnerable (people who were less-healthy on account of age, weight, and co-morbidities)...while younger and healthier people mostly lived their lives as normal, making efforts to do things like distancing. Shutting down schools was probably the worst single error. Now kids may be irrevocably behind in school, and young adults' efforts to build wealth have been radically set back. 

   Needless to say, ten years from now we might conclude that this view is wrong. But that won't do much to excuse the left for using its cultural and political hegemony to force the country into a seemingly suboptimal course of action on the basis of avoidable bias. 

   So, again: non-progressives seem to have been right about a major social and political issue--and progressives seem to have been wrong. (I keep meaning to write on big ways conservatives and other non-progressives have been wrong, but haven't done so. The biggest thing having been: election fraud madness. But I haven't done so.)