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Well part of the topic in this long post and threads is trust in health authorities. I think it's rational and not unreasonable to criticize decisions that per

Well part of the topic in this long post and threads is trust in health authorities. I think it's rational and not unreasonable to criticize decisions that permanently damaged the trust. Stuff was confusing as it was in April. I argued with people about masks then. Normal, rational people, who didn't see this update and sudden change of tune. The information noise level was high in those days, which didn't help.

pas 6y ago
Absolutely. The communication was worse than awful, and on top of that it wasn't even coordinated. Plus to make matters even worse instead of doing that all that the current US administration did was to issue gag orders to scientists. Instead of organizing PPE distribution and informing people that it might come to mandatory mask wearing, the message was a very dumb "well, maybe, but really think of the shortage and well, it's a hard question". :/