I agree and I didn't see any panic happening at all. I saw highly coordinated responses/rules/mandates often enforced with police violence that came in waves and that were aided and abetted by the mockingbird media and vast amount of propaganda online. I saw multiple western nations responding to the pandemic in near perfect synch and in lockstep, from masking (wear one mask, no two, now wear goggles, mask mandates for 2 year olds on planes), social distancing (arbitrary 6 feet), brutal martial law-style lockdowns reminiscent of China with people being hauled off to camps in Australia, to the vilification of any treatment except the ones that killed you like remdesivir. The implementation of deadly hospital/nursing home protocols where patients were left without care or family and unnecessarily vented, drugged, and then left to die alone to the sudden belief that natural immunity no longer exists and that the only way you'll get your life back is when you take this experimental serum and not one minute before. Passing off the greatest attack on human rights in world history doesn't happen simply because "we panicked". This Atlas piece seems like a limited hangout. He covers important "missteps" but he leaves out the big one-- that the vaccine is/was NOT safe and it was rolled out without proper testing/trials and it was injected by force via mandates. The fact that propaganda outlet Newsweek published this further echoes my belief that this is nothing more than a limited hangout which has bonus points for setting up Trump to take the fall for the pandemic policies and the vaccine rollout come 2024.