IMO, this kid is dishonest and pitching another trial balloon on forgiveness.
1) He freely admits his team (using his description)
"repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young."
2) He freely admits "I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives." and "It was flawed in a way that undermined its efficacy and
resulted in thousands if not millions of preventable deaths."
3) He freely admits "we violated the autonomy of those who would be most negatively impacted by our policies: the poor, the working class, small business owners, Blacks and Latinos, and children. "
4) But then he wants a free pass. He blames the bad and anti-science policy on "preferences", a lack of diversity, former President Trump, and those of us who pushed back including renowned scientists, professors, and doctors. In fact he calls his team "the expert class" and referred to those of us who were correctly calling the issues in point 1 above (that he freely admits they got wrong) "dissidents" who "turned to conspiracy theories and a cottage industry of scientific contortionists".
5) So you know what? Screw this POS medical student. I hope his "team" sees to it that he doesn't finish medical school. I wouldn't want to be treated by him.
He knows his "team" was wrong, he describes much of the censoring and suppression of any alternate views, but he wants a free pass and ZERO RESPONSIBILITY for his and his team's actions. In fact, he blames their misguided actions at least in part on those of us who his team violated and censored to include Trump. Sorry,
his "team" needs to be investigated and incarcerated for the known harm that they imposed on millions of Americans. Until that happens, we are all at very high risk of this happening again.
No consequences = OK to do again but even more oppressively.