Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harsh pandemic mandates increased social dysfunction and led to excess deaths.
This is why Sweden, whose pandemic measures were voluntary, has come out of the pandemic era with the lowest excess mortality in the world.
Sweden was right. Everyone else was wrong.