Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who took some of the most aggressive measures in the country during COVID-19, recently said she has no desire to review her pandemic management. Appearing on the Financial Audit podcast Nov. 3, the governor deflected when host Caleb Hammer questioned Michigan’s lockdown policies.

“Listen, Caleb, none of us wants to go back and relive that,” she said. “We were doing the best we could with very little or very bad information.”

This is short-sighted. Whatever the lessons of COVID-19 may be, we won’t learn them if we refuse to discuss them. We should not compound the mistakes of the lockdowns by deliberately ignoring those mistakes.

COVID-19 was the most significant global pandemic in a century. Whitmer responded aggressively, disrupting Michigan’s economy, businesses

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