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If you want people to take experts seriously (and make huge personal sacrifices based on their recommendations), then there’s going to have to be some reflectio
by dabbledash 7y ago
If you want people to take experts seriously (and make huge personal sacrifices based on their recommendations), then there’s going to have to be some reflection of how much bad advice and prognostication was put out early on in this thing. Sweeping it under the rug or pretending it didn’t happen isn’t going to help.
- notacoward 7y agoOh, there will definitely have to be a lot of that, but "CDC can't be trusted ever again" is just another kind of disinformation we'll be studying. And speaking of what's not helpful, I think derailing discussion of current evidence and courses of action fits into that category. "Who said what when" might be important but it's not urgent. It can be deferred while we deal with the urgent.