Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from pages 139-140 of Scott Atlas’s important 2021 book, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID From Destroying America (original emphasis):

Even allowing for a non-expert level of knowledge, the [Trump White House] Task Force doctors somehow ignored the evidence indicating the very low risk from this infection for the overwhelming majority of people. Birx even emphasized at the Task Force that this infection was extremely dangerous exactly because it was so commonly asymptomatic or so mild that it went unnoticed – as if it would be less dangerous if it were more deadly.