in the great argumentative battle between cock-up and conspiracy as explanations of pandemic protocols, he comes down on the side of cock-up. The protocols were “driven by autonomous political and institutional forces rather than nebulous globalist conspirators”.
This is a fine, robust, amusing and invigorating argument. But it has two related flaws running through it.
The first flaw is that by emphasising “really dumb” over “callous and evil” he loses the necessary clarity of insisting that the policies were foolish and evil.
Folly and evil are different. Folly is a consequence of ignorance, and is forgivable, or exculpable. Evil is harder to forgive.