This was going to be a longer post, instead of a short and cryptic one, but life gets in the way, and after eighteen months of this crap, none of us are ok.

Anyway, I’m worried we’re starting to see a Public Health Blob, akin to the Foreign Policy Blob (which after twenty years of disaster finally received a setback). It holds to Things We All Know Yet Are Not True and Things We Have No Idea If They’re True Or Not, and it has different normative values from those who fund their positions and their research (or at least some of them).

This will not end well if we’re not careful.