Instead of "trust the expert", they said "trust the science". Instead of freedom of speech to their fellow colleagues, they labeled them antivaxxers, anti science folks. Go and know that science is not meant to give absolute truth or solution about anything, it is a struggle and effort of using logic and quantitative reasoning to address human issues. Sometimes we are lucky, sometimes we are not. Also, be careful of how you consume explanations of numbers. Most of it today are made up stories by the authors, sometimes they are lucky, sometimes they are not.

Scientist and policy makers should take responsibilities for their action and they should be punished for leading the masses/government wrongly, unless it can be proved to be a mistake. Sometimes what they call mistakes are not mistakes, they are intentional.