Originally published at crisis magazine
Zeynep Tufekci is a Princeton professor who writes regular op-eds for The New York Times. Her March 16 column, “We Were Badly Misled by the Event That Changed Our Lives,” generated no small amount of pushback. That was somewhat surprising, considering that just three years ago Tufekci was still being lionized as “consistently ahead of the curve” for pushing tougher responses to Covid.
That was then and this is now. The column is another one of those “Oops! Excuse meeeee!” pieces about how the elites misunderstood Covid and their response to it. As we mark the fifth anniversary of the great global pandemic shutdown, expect to see a few more “you know, we made a wee mistake” essays.
These were the people who were soooo clear about the “science” that we “deplorables” denied, the “science” on whose basis politicians mandated experimental vaccination and on which ecclesiastics relied to claim “charity” demanded we submit. Now, five years later, it seems many of those experts’ “certain” premises about Covid weren’t so certain after all. Tufekci’s mea culpa confesses we yet “may not know” the origin of Covid, but she is more willing to admit it may have been a Communist-Chinese-and-experimenting-gain-of-function-scientists’ lab leak.
Orthodox. Faithful. Free.
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