Uh oh, you trusted the experts but now the experts of different disciplines are disagreeing and you have no ability to balance their competing priorities without conceding that your technocratic managerial worldview was fatally flawed

— F!nn (@finnitejest) September 10, 2021

Righto. There is no scientific answer to values and priorities. None. Not for Covid, not for anything. “Believe science” is nonsense (for a whole variety of reasons) and it doesn’t work to determine what anyone should do, nor can it ever. “Believe science” can be used to support anything from farming organs from still-living people to ritual human sacrifice to wearing ornamental chickens on top of your head.

And meanwhile STEM goofuses claim we don’t need philosophy.