https://www.independent.org/pdf/research_articles/2024_03_15_hanke_tlas_covid%20lessons%20learned_final.pdf

Tons of cites. Very well written. And it will thoroughly
piss off the 1984 (anointed) crowd.

Lesson #1: Leaders Should Calm Public Fears, Not Stoke Them

Lesson #2: Lockdowns Do Not Work to Substantially Reduce Deaths

or Stop Viral Circulation

Lesson #3: Lockdowns and Social Isolation Had Negative Consequences

that Far Outweighed Benefits

Lesson #4: Government Should Not Pay People More Not to Work

Lesson #5: Shutting Down Schools Was a Major Policy Mistake With

Tragic Effects on Children, Especially the Poor

Lesson #6: Masks Were of Little or No Value and Possibly Harmful

Lesson #7: Government Should Not Suppress Dissent or Police the
Boundaries of Science

Lesson #8: The Real Hospital Story Was Underutilization

Lesson #9: Protect the Most Vulnerable

Lesson #10: Warp Speed: Deregulate But Don’t Mandate

Conclusion: Limit Government Emergency Powers and Earn Back Public Trust

One result of the government’s error-ridden COVID response was
that the Americans have justifiably lost faith
in public health
institutions. Lockdowns, school closures, and mandates were
catastrophic errors, pushed with
remarkable fervor by public
health authorities at all levels.

We recommend that Congress and the states define by law
“public health emergency” with strict limitations on
powers conferred to the executives and time limits that
require legislation to extend. Additionally, term
limits
should be established for all senior health
agency positions.

Grantmaking should be independent of policy-making and
public communication, and NIH funding itself
should be
decentralized or block-granted to the states.

Congress should require full transparency of all Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), CDC, and NIH
discussions with
immediate posting to public forums. In addition, statements
from all advisors in those
meetings should be made widely
visible to the public.

It should be definitively restated that CDC guidance is
strictly advisory and the CDC does not have power to
set laws or mandates.
The U.S. should halt all binding
agreements with the World Health Organization until
satisfactory
transparency and accountability is achieved.

Unless and until key institutions openly acknowledge that
lockdowns, school closures, and mask/vaccine
mandates were
catastrophic errors that will not be repeated in the future,
the American people will – and
should – withhold their trust.