I have mixed feelings about “trust the expert” after this pandemic. When we have a problem, we usually trust experts. Fire brigade can fight a fire, a coder can fix a bug. When an expert is doing a standard task for the 100th time, he usually knows exactly what to do. During this pandemic experts didn’t know what was happening, couldn’t make any predictions and didn’t know how to fix the pandemic. We as a public could feel it.  Masks don’t help/make help. Lockdown with 3k.infections a day. For just two weeks to flatten the curve. Then no restrictions with 500k infections a day. And so on. <br>I don’t blame the epidemiologists and other professionals, because pandemics of that kind don’t happen every day. I don’t expect them to act as a fire brigade, or a dentist making a filling. There are situations when “trust the science, trust the expert” actually means “trust this guy who is 55% right”.