"Let's declare a pandemic amnesty," Brown Professor Emily Oster writes in The Atlantic. "We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID."Let's start where I can agree. There's some room for grace in the earliest months of the pandemic. In February 2020, the Chinese Communist Party, in partnership with the World Health Organization, lied about the seriousness and spread of the disease, which quickly led to the Wuhan coronavirus quickly becoming a global problem. We knew people in China were dying, and the Chinese government made the situation seem dire as it welded shut apartment buildings and disappeared doctors who eventually succumbed to the virus.