There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

GEERT VANDEN BOSSCHE SEP 14, 2023 READ

It seems that no one relies any longer on that archaic sense that has now fallen into disuse or oblivion: common sense. This sense is currently wondering why a coronavirus like SARS-CoV-2 seems to have emerged as the most spectacular and difficult-to-understand virus ever, why the immune response to it is so different from that against other acute viral infections, and how it induces a new form of ‘herd immunity’ that apparently protects against disease but not infection. This same common sense also teaches us that the truth is not always proclaimed by those who shout the loudest and, due to glaring conflicts of interest, shamelessly continue to speak on behalf of those whose bread they eat. Also, the realization that complex problems usually cannot be solved by one-sided approaches and by the world’s best specialists and experts who, however, have long lost sight of the forest for the trees, was actually already a no-brainer.