Leana Wen Throws Biden Admin Under the Bus Over Their Handling of Covid and Wanting to ‘Contain the Virus in Perpetuity’

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WEN: “I think something else that I wish that public health experts in the Biden Administration did, but for variety of reasons they were not able to, but — and I’m not sure in retrospect how exactly they would have done it, but the big miss, in this c ase the very biggest miss, is that there was no end, that it was — “
LONGWELL: “Not declared it over?”
WEN: “Yes.”
LONGWELL: “Like the Cold War?”
WEN: “Yeah, right. That — you — I mean, okay, so, in public health, there is always going to be a tension between individual liberties and what’s best for the group. That’s just inherent in public health. And early on in the pandemic, there were many reasons, I think, why there was a collective, ‘Okay, we need to have masks. Maybe in some places we need to have mask mandates or we need to make sure that we do everything possible to get people the vaccine.’ I mean, it was maybe understandable at that time why those precautions were necessary. But we need to see those precautions as extraordinary, that they are really — you know, maybe, if not once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-blue-moon and only for exceptional circumstances, which means that they need to be removed as soon as possible, not in the ideal circumstance or when there is no danger.”