Patrick McKenzie

So on the, like, give people the catchphrase for this was first doses first.

Yeah.

That was not the procedure in many nations, which have many smart people in them.

And it was not the procedure in the United States until, I think, you know, first doses first.

You can, like, sometimes trace policy back to individual blog posts.

And so to the extent that one can be traced, I think it was Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution who's right.

this is very obvious and overdetermined.

If we want to win at this, like first doses first is objectively the correct policy.

And after, you know, this like ping-ponged around the political system for a while and they, you know, talked to medical experts and et cetera, they were like, yeah,

Yeah, it turns out that, you know, this is the equivalent of like saying you should probably consume calories at some point in the typical week.

That is better than not consuming calories.

Well, we checked with the medical experts and it took six weeks of meeting, but they definitely agree.

Beating.

Beats not eating for living.

So we're going to do that now.

And on the one hand, like it is a genuine strength of the United States that like, you know, he's not just actually some rando, but relative to like the topic in question, some rando on the internet, like wrote up a 2000 word blog post and we stopped doing stupid things.

We could have stopped doing the stupid thing sooner.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm under-informed on much of the international comparison, partly because in 2021, I was sort of busy.