Amid multi models, the one consensus in tackling Covid: Vaccines work

IN the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, it was said that Covid-19 was transmitted through surfaces and that one can get infected after handling the mail or even pamphlets.

We were instructed not only to wash our hands every hour, but also to wear gloves and ensure that we disinfect every delivery package and thoroughly wash, even with soap and hot water, the fruits and vegetables we bought. This is not to mock the medical professionals who warned us of transmission risks in early 2020. Science is by definition an ongoing process of trials and errors; what is considered a definite assumption today will be challenged by new discoveries tomorrow. Certainly, the advisory to wash hands regularly still makes a lot of sense. And wearing gloves was not such a big hassle. Better to be safe than sorry, for sure.

The point is that much of the criticism directed at how governments have been managing the response to the Covid assault should consider that political leaders, very much like the people they represent, were terrified by what was taking place around the world, particularly in the early days as hundreds of thousands of people became victims of the pandemic.