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I don't think "conflated" is the right word. Romer doesn't imply that these problems have the same cause, or are even correlated (although I suspect they are).

I don't think "conflated" is the right word. Romer doesn't imply that these problems have the same cause, or are even correlated (although I suspect they are). He just lays them out as stark examples of FDA getting in the way of the public interest in this pandemic.

seehafer 6y ago
That's a fair point. I was responding to this idea of all of these being part of a single "process machine".