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Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on the Coronavirus?

• AndrewBissell 6y ago
  > Feigl-Ding’s tweets got more readers than those of his critics’. But those credentialed in epidemiology and public health were much more likely to see the criticism as sober and responsible, Feigl-Ding himself as an irresponsible alarmist, and the impulse to raise alarm a deeply reckless one. An Atlantic story about it was headlined “How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus.” [Aristocrats voice] "The experts!"