> The response the original commenter got from barry-cotter was to "shut up and listen to your betters" because the commenter wasn't a "certified expert" follow

> The response the original commenter got from barry-cotter was to "shut up and listen to your betters" because the commenter wasn't a "certified expert" followed by a rant that could have come straight from an episode of Coast to Coast AM. I apologize for a lack of clarity in my writing but not for being very, very pissed off. I assumed it was obvious that I was paraphrasing kspacewalk in the bit about one’s betters, given that it directly followed a quote about the hubris of thinking that a mere peon’s opinion is worth anything or that what they do might matter. If the people and institutions in which we have placed our trust fail us we have every right to be angry. The populace’s of Taiwan, Korea and Singapore should be showering their ministers, civil servants and CDC equivalents with rose petals. Everywhere else screwed up to varying extents and thousands to hundreds of thousands of people will die because they failed at their job.