A new battle about infohazards is brewing on Less Wrong! Some are arguing that a post criticizing various government agencies' response to covid-19 is an infohazard because it might reduce people's trust in government agencies.https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h4vWsBBjASgiQ2pn6/credibility-of-the-cdc-on-sars-cov-2 …
Lots of angles on this: The left decided that ideological purity was the most important qualification for ... everything - the result is that our public health professionals write OpEds about quarantines "not working" because they all deeply believe "borders bad" 1/x
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USG is utterly drained of competence at the lowest levels because we threw out civil service exams because they had "disparate impact". Why isn't there soap in airport bathrooms? Why don't US Customs ask about travel to Italy? Because the on the ground ability isn't there. 2/x
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FDA blocks anyone from producing tests for corona for weeks because as an organization it's hostile to the point of insanity to anything that demonstrates private sector efficacy 3/x
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Yeah, THAT is an ideological bias that has caused serious harm to the response. Evidence for how wrong it is is that even the Chinese, who actually had the initial outbreak of the disease, are banning travel into China from third countries!
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And also everyone else is now talking about and implementing local travel bans in e.g. Italy.
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