Sam Harris

How effective masks are.

Well, at a certain point, we knew it was respiratory.

But how respiratory?

And whether it's spread by fomites.

We were confused about a lot of things.

And we're still confused.

It's been a moving target this whole time.

And it's been changing this whole time.

And our responses to it have been...

we ramped up the vaccines as quickly as we could, but too quick for some, not quick enough for others.

We could have done human challenge trials and got them out more quickly with better data.

And I think that's something we should probably look at in the future because to my eye, that would make ethical sense to do challenge trials.

But

And so much of my concern about COVID, I mean, many people are confused about my concern about COVID.

My concern about COVID has for much of the time not been narrowly focused on COVID itself and how dangerous I perceive COVID to be as a illness.

It has been for the longest time

even more a concern about our ability to respond to a truly scary pathogen next time.

Outside those initial months, give me the first six months to be quite worried about COVID and the unraveling of society.

And the supply of toilet paper.

You want to secure a steady supply of toilet paper.