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> But apparently some politicians want to down play the problem and their obfuscation is echoed in every corner of the web with great zeal and again drowning o
by dominotw 7y ago
> But apparently some politicians want to down play the problem and their obfuscation is echoed in every corner of the web with great zeal and again drowning out reality.
Yes obviously they take the main blame.
but also others.
From Jan,
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/coronavirus-panic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/coronavirus-panic...
> China’s response appears to be driven by political considerations more than epidemiological ones. The government has imposed a travel lockdown on more than 35 million people, which experts say is a quarantine of unprecedented size and scale, yet it may not even turn out to be very effective.
what about the nameless experts media has been quoting to float their conspiracy theories. Will these ppl take some of the blame for eroding people's trust in experts?
- ceejayoz 7y ago"We don't know how well a large-scale quarantine of an entire heavily populated region will work" isn't a conspiracy theory. It turned out to work, but that wasn't a certainty back then. (You're also linking an op-ed piece.)
- dominotw 7y ago> China’s response appears to be driven by political considerations more than epidemiological ones. I was referring to this. Author isn't interpreting it as "we don't know".