Those of us who were lockdown sceptics right from the start will think the title of this piece is close to self-evident. For two-plus years our media, whose job it is to be sceptical of government and of society’s elites, turned themselves into lockdown cheerleaders and fearmongers extraordinaire. They questioned near on nothing, believed modelling over raw data, and went all-in on thinking that aping the approach of the Chinese communist politburo was the way to go for a liberal democracy.
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