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I don't think you'd believe anything they would have to say, would you? Either way, if you are a public health official you have to be held to a higher standard

• bink 5y ago
  They are held to a higher standard. That's why they aren't making assumptions based on such limited data. They're being cautious until enough data is gathered to make an informed decision.
• vkou 5y ago
  > I don't think you'd believe anything they would have to say, would you? Hundreds of millions of people, many of them with the power to set policy do believe them. Strangely enough, that belief seems to fall along a political divide. Most of those people have long made up their mind to 'never listen to anything you (the health authorities) say ever again'. The lines in the sand were drawn ~March 2020, when the politicians picked their sides, and ever since then, it's not clear to me that any amount of data has changed anyone's mind since then.