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A bureaucrat is specifically someone who is an elected official dealing with governance and policy. A bureaucrat who is an expert in health is exactly who you w
by ehnto 7y ago
A bureaucrat is specifically someone who is an elected official dealing with governance and policy. A bureaucrat who is an expert in health is exactly who you would want advising on an issue that is primarily driven by the management of a pandemic.
But the reality of it is none of these people are making the decisions, they're advising, your governors are making the final calls. So your governors should have information from economists, health officials and other areas and should be making decisions based on their best judgement of all that information.
- lbeltrame 7y agoI have a question in order to compare the USA situation to our own: what kind of statements do the expert panels make, when interviewed by the media or in official communication?
- ehnto 7y agoI don't follow US media all that closely, so I don't know enough to comment sorry. I think maybe you are leading to the thought that they still influence public actions through the media, and I'm sure that's true.
- lbeltrame 7y agoI say this because in my country the communication is very un-empathic and some prominent experts truly lack the skill, causing either denial or terror depending on who gets their message. I'm being told that other countries carry their communication in a much more rational way, but I haven't been able to confirm this (hence the question).
- ehnto 7y agoI can only really speak for Australia, where communication has been fairly consistent and level-headed across the official channels at both a federal and state level of government. Most communication stresses caution, but maintains hope and lays out logical, fact based plans for restrictions that people can understand.
- imustbeevil 7y agoAt least in April, almost twice as many people had trust in our expert (71%) than our President (45%) or Legislators (41/40%). https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/08/dr-fauci-is-voters-preferred-source-for-covid-19-information/ https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/08/dr-fauci-is-voters-pre...