Why do you need studies to tell you something so obvious?

Can’t you see that successful countries wore masks?

Why do you need studies when practicing doctors successfully treated patients with HCQ?

Something very defective with modern intellectualshttps://t.co/nzt2hMaaoA

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) June 5, 2020

Sometimes, things that are “obvious” are just wrong, but these days our intellectual class has proceeded greatly too far along the quantification path, ignoring all else including the precautionary principle, common sense, and all signs that they are wrong as long as the spreadsheet numbers look fine.

Part of that is the laundering of political views through “expertise” and part of it is just that it’s a way of directly asserting power. But all of it makes me angry.