"This book shows that we’ve known about effective treatments since March 2020. Had the CDC publicized such treatments, it would have made the entire pandemic response completely unnecessary: lockdowns, vaccines, mandates, masking, business closures, etc. Everyone would have gotten natural immunity and the pandemic would have ended with virtually no deaths."
There definitely should have been more focus on treatments; what has happened on those is unconscionable. However, I don't think it's a given that such an approach would have had the effect stated. It all depends on whether health services would have been overrun or not and what variants a much wider replication of the virus would have thrown up.
It's really impossible to know what would have happened with a different approach and we can't really go back and give it another go. So the question is how we go forward and, to be honest, I can't think of a strategy that governments would find acceptable and that would work to end the pandemic or reduce it to something…
Gary, I'm currently recovering from PCR diagnosed Covid. From my perspective here in Australia I will make the following observations.
I'm unvaccinated but I was infected by my double vaccinated wife who also got ill to a very similar level.( mild flu)
Yesterday we had a tally up on who we know who've had covid in the last 2 weeks, 10 was the number. All vaccinated except for me.
I'm not sure how any other conclusion can be made other than "The vaccine doesn't work, it's a flop" if it was a consumer good we would be demanding a refund.
Also it's not a vaccine if it doesn't stop infection.