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Agreed. Official information has been "Herd Immunity", "Masks don't work", "the risk to Americans is low", "the only effective treatment is rest." And on and
by cameldrv 7y ago
Agreed. Official information has been "Herd Immunity", "Masks don't work", "the risk to Americans is low", "the only effective treatment is rest."
And on and on. Twitter has done a huge service to correct these awful experts.
- zzzcpan 7y agoThe problem is WHO and CDC and what not are political organizations, they are influenced by governments, they have agendas and pursue very different goals than your health and safety. "Official" here means authoritative information and power over individuals, not expert opinions to help individuals. Of course censorship is the first thing they reach out for when that power is under threat.
- cameldrv 7y agoThe problem is that they're not even coherent from one day to the next. One day it's "the risk to Americans is low", then THREE DAYS LATER I'm not allowed to leave my house. Glad to see things apparently improving in this U.S. leadership, but Twitter filled a very hard vacuum in the past two months for getting accurate information. You definitely had to curate your follows, and actually read the scientific articles linked, etc, but thanks to Twitter and Reddit, my family is as ready as we can be, physically, emotionally, and financially.