> Let's evaluate claims on their merits, not based on who is making them. The average person doesn’t have the time or intellect to do this. This isn’t a realis

> Let's evaluate claims on their merits, not based on who is making them. The average person doesn’t have the time or intellect to do this. This isn’t a realistic way for society to function. Trust is the most important thing for a public institution, and ours failed spectacularly there. Claiming the vaccine had a 99% efficacy, flip flopping on masks, etc. Massive hubris that should have been handled with a “here’s the best we know, but our confidence isn’t high enough to make definitive statements yet”. Trust is a necessity. Without that there is no debating merits.