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Leadership and researchers have already destroyed their credibility by repeatedly lying to the public about their intentions. Last year they consciously lied th
by silicon2401 5y ago
Leadership and researchers have already destroyed their credibility by repeatedly lying to the public about their intentions. Last year they consciously lied that masks were ineffective to preserve them for health workers. This year they lied about the motivation for dropping mask mandates: it was to motivate vaccination, not because it was just a new scientific finding. Not to mention the failure to acknowledge Taiwan as its own country to appease the CCP. The only rational argument is to not conclude anything unless solid evidence emerges. Anybody who wants you to conclude something prematurely is pushing an agenda
- MrBuddyCasino 5y ago> Leadership and researchers have already destroyed their credibility by repeatedly lying to the public about their intentions. Published March 18, before the obvious became mainstream consensus: "Covid is science's Chernobyl" https://graymirror.substack.com/p/covid-is-sciences-chernobyl https://graymirror.substack.com/p/covid-is-sciences-chernoby...
- FridayoLeary 5y agoBut they seem to be blissfully unaware of this. My respect for my governments covid guidelines is quite... low. There's a limit to how many lies, policy reversals and guesswork i'm willing to swallow. And it was at least 85% guesswork in the early stages. The "experts" were clueless!
- loopz 5y agoWhat could you expect, it was a new virus strain not previously seen. There were mixed and missing reports from China, and requirement to act fast on something unknown not previously seen before. Leadership didn't melt everywhere though. In smaller regions, response could quickly meet the challenge and did so phenomenally in several places. Also in regions with mixed ownership of media, reporting were pretty nuanced too.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoI expected them to confess their ignorance more honestly. Which they didn't.
- loopz 5y agoThat would maybe require a culture of trust, or very strong leaders. In some places, weak leaders even rose to the occasion, though may melt afterwards.
- Aunche 5y ago>Last year they consciously lied that masks were ineffective to preserve them for health workers. I'm tired of hearing this meme. A lie implies they were hiding their intentions, but leadership was transparent about saving masks for healthcare workers from the start. It's just that nobody bothered to listen, and now people want someone to blame for not listening. Here is a video from Fauci from early March: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI https://youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI In it Fauci says that masks are primarily ineffective at preventing you from contracting disease and effective at preventing its spread. At the time, it made sense to save the masks for healthcare workers and sick people.
- refurb 5y agoThe apologism is pretty remarkable here. Yes, the attempt was to save masks for healthcare workers, but the message was clear that masks didn’t make that much difference. Fauci should own that, not twist words to claim he never said it.
- Aunche 5y agoHe's right. Masks don't make much of a difference at preventing you from contracting covid. It's easy for you to say criticize Fauci's words when you don't get blamed if half the doctors quit or get covid because they don't have enough masks.
- underseacables 5y agoIt’s politics: If one party says it, the other MUST disagree, no matter the evidence. For the left it seems the person making the claim is more important than the claim itself. It’s a naked power play and has stripped all credibility from biden and everyone else in Congress.