I'm struck by how little we've learned period. I hope in a position to think about this as a moment in history rather than an ongoing problem. What do you think is the biggest lesson from the pandemic that we have failed to learn as a as a world? That really backfired. We saw what happened when it was viewed as a Trump vaccine, the Democrats were saying they never take it and then when it became a Biden vaccine and the Republicans wouldn't take it. It should have been less to Madison Avenue who knows how to reach people in their heterogeneous populations we have.
When there's no vaccine on the market, people will look for other ways to be safe, including school closures and the handwashing of groceries. Listen as economist Casey Mulligan of the University Chicago talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the costs of delaying a vaccine, the hidden costs of FDA regulation, and what we learned and failed to learn about the Covid pandemic.