The Covid pandemic will be remembered not only as a public health crisis but as a profound moral failure. It exposed the terrifying ease with which democratic societies can abandon ethical principles, human rights, and basic medical decency under the spell of collective fear. The response to Covid was less a triumph of science than a capitulation to authoritarian impulses, enabled not so much by tyrants as by the moral cowardice of professionals entrusted with safeguarding the public good – especially the medical elite.
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