Subject: Re: Murthy vs Missouri , for the legal scholars
Absolutely true. Once the actual experts (there's that word!) stepped in, deaths plummeted in those areas that listened to them. Those areas that didn't experienced higher rates of death. (Yeah, I'm looking at YOU, Red States...red states experienced much higher rates of death from COVID because they thought masks were useless and dewormers were effective.)

They are experts for a reason. Doesn't mean they are perfect. But they are better-informed and more knowledgeable about their subject than the average citizen.

Refresh my memory...what happened in Jan/Feb of 2021? I'm pretty sure a new variant, but was there also "fatigue" from all the precautions? We were still sequestered at that time. I would go to the lab on weekends when no one was there, and on weekdays I worked from home (writing reports, gathering info via email for lab work I would need to do, etc). That's about the time the vaccine was available for older folks. We got our first shots in April, I think (of 2021).