Ben is a garden variety establishment conservative. He has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to analyze the political reality on the ground and invariably makes the wrong call. His wife is a doctor, and still he couldn't figure out that all drugs come with side effects and no drug is indicated for the entire population. And here we had an experimental drug and an experimental technology seemingly produced in record time. A person who considers himself as smart as Ben does, should have seen the red flags.
He should have, could have and would have if it hadn't been in what he thought was in his interest to not see them. Willful blindness is not a defense. It's not as if the information wasn't out there, in the open, easily available (especially and above all to someone in his position) and it was certainly not the case that there weren't many voices, with many of the most highly qualified scientists, doctors, and experts in all pertinent fields among them, crying out with the facts and evidence.
Ben is a garden variety establishment conservative. He has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to analyze the political reality on the ground and invariably makes the wrong call. His wife is a doctor, and still he couldn't figure out that all drugs come with side effects and no drug is indicated for the entire population. And here we had an experimental drug and an experimental technology seemingly produced in record time. A person who considers himself as smart as Ben does, should have seen the red flags.
He should have, could have and would have if it hadn't been in what he thought was in his interest to not see them. Willful blindness is not a defense. It's not as if the information wasn't out there, in the open, easily available (especially and above all to someone in his position) and it was certainly not the case that there weren't many voices, with many of the most highly qualified scientists, doctors, and experts in all pertinent fields among them, crying out with the facts and evidence.
Well said.
I agree. It has to be safe and effective if they hide the data for 75 years. Sarc. 🤔
Amen.
Amen, LOL!