Patrick McKenzie

forget the tiering system, forget anything else.

Literally walk out into the street and say, I've got the COVID shot, I need to administer it in the next 15 minutes, who wants it?

And in the United States, we had a policy ban on doing that.

We said, no, to protect the integrity of the tiering system, to embrace our glorious cause of health equity, you should throw that shot out.

And that policy was stupid.

And it was announced by governors proudly in December in front of news cameras.

And then a couple of weeks later, reality set in and they were like, people told them, sir, it turns out that throwing out the vaccine is stupid.

And the governor did not go on the nightly news again and say, I gave a very confident policy speech a month ago in front of this news camera where I said that I would prosecute anyone who gives out end of day shots.

But he literally said.

He literally said that.

This is almost a direct quote, and you can see the actual direct quote in my previous writing on this, but I will not just prosecute people.

I will go aggressively to try to maximize the reputational impact to your firms and your licenses.

We were pointing metaphorical and, when it came down to it, literal guns at physicians in the middle of a pandemic for doing unauthorized medical care.

Crazy.

But when the system corrected, it did not correct all the way.

The governor did not go out and say, hey, that thing I said a month ago was effing insane.

I take that back and apologize.

No, it was like, OK, we're going to quietly pass out the word.

That's no longer the policy.

But we don't want to own up to the mistake.