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The hypocrisy displayed in this incident is especially teeth grinding. It's maddening enough to see a leader flouting their own rules. But then to add people re
by korethr 6y ago
The hypocrisy displayed in this incident is especially teeth grinding. It's maddening enough to see a leader flouting their own rules. But then to add people representing a medical organization just makes it that much worse. As you say, politicians gonna politician. But I would expect that if anyone would actually know better, it would be members of a medical organization.
- trhway 6y agoWhat if they know better. After all who else if not them. Just couple days ago an epidemiologist on NPR was talking that those summer beach restrictions didn't make sense as being outside is least risky situation. I suppose many other restrictions are the same "Do Something". Like the current curfew in CA.
- ethbr0 6y agoThere's a reason "doctors make the worst patients" is a joke. Because it's entirely possible to be brilliant in one thing and ignorant in another, and seductively easy to forget that knowledge doesn't always transfer.
- burnthrow 6y agoBut in this analogy, we are "patients" only by legal force.
- ethbr0 6y agoThe context here was the governor having dinner with lobbyists from the AMA. With the implication that AMA-affilitated people should know better. Whereas, more likely they dismissed concerns on the basis of their own knowledge, which in fact might be inapplicable to an epidemiological question. Kind of like asking a meteorologist how they feel about climate change.
- jaywalk 6y agoBingo. I think the most likely way to view this is that although they were breaking the restrictions, they knew there was actually little to no risk involved.
- listless 6y agoThen the problem is that the elite know better and can be trusted, but the people cannot. This is how we got Trump and it’s how we get him again. This stuff is truly galling.
- mcguire 6y agoWould lobbyists for the CMA be medical professionals?