Will the Public Health Establishment Try to Censor Policy Debates?

The Lancet's editors have established a "commission" to recommend means by which the powers that be can stifle open debate — er, I mean, counter misinformation and disinformation — about public health and scientific policies. From, "The Lancet Commission on Rethinking Misinformation, Health, and Human Security" announcement (citations omitted):

The UN and World Economic Forum have identified misinformation and disinformation as top global risks — ranking them as higher short-term threats than extreme weather, state-based armed conflict, and cyber insecurity.

Time to look in a mirror! Public health officials, not their critics, shattered the public's trust.

Remember when we were told by public health institutions and international leaders that social distancing was a necessary response to Covid and then found out the directive had no scientific basis? And when we were told that vaccines mandates were necessary to prevent infection — even for the very young, who rarely became seriously ill — only to discover that jabs reduced the severity of disease but did not stop transmission? Talk about an exploding cigar! And when we were assured that a leak from the Wuhan lab didn't unleash the pandemic, only to find that such a scenario indeed seems to have been its cause, and that the NIH helped fund the gain-of-function research that might have caused the virus's infectiousness?