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A lot of comments without any mention of how our public health officials, previously respected, managed to lose the confidence of the public by ends-justifies-t
by mhb 2y ago
A lot of comments without any mention of how our public health officials, previously respected, managed to lose the confidence of the public by ends-justifies-the-means reasoning. Also the hypocrisy of many elites regarding social distancing for the masses, an arbitrary, never-justified buffer of six feet, exceptions for essential services like bars, dearth of criticism for certain close quarters protests, etc.
Public health was MIA for most of the epidemic regarding true and actionable information. And you're asking if this is just how the politics has played out? It's not at all nuanced.
- techorange 2y agoSo, in response to public health officials being wrong about X, we get new public health officials who are wrong about Y? I totally understand what you’re saying, but it doesn’t sound like they tried to explain that this was a bad campaign, they just ended it.
- mhb 2y agoNot sure what you're looking for. Public health officials sacrificed their hard-won trust based on empiricism and truth-telling at the altar of expediency in an "emergency". After that's done, all that's left are arguments from authority. In that environment, apparently more people are receptive to the idea of picking their own authorities regardless of their objectively harebrained notions.