Yep. Lack of reflection among media and pundits that made all this so much worse is mindblowing. All of February, I watched people locally use those “what about the flu/travel bans don’t work/don’t overreact” articles to decide go on trips and conferences.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1242647591990562816 …
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The admin's failings, Fox News.. We can see all of it very clearly . A disaster. Agree. But, despite that, we didn't do what *we* could do as people partly because we were told to ... chill. Hong Kong has unresponsive government, but the people acted and saved themselves.
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I feel this is really overestimating the influence of pundits.
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Maybe, but I watched people act in response to those articles *and* it's the one thing they are supposed to do, no?We kept being told worry about the flu, travel bans are racist (whatever the admin might be motivated by, severe travel restrictions were imperative), don't panic...
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I guess I resist “our own tribe.” No one I knew or respected was saying ‘what about the flu’ etc. You obviously heard more of that than I did. Anyway I think it’s wrong to say NYC was the center of the bad punditry (“it’s not a coincidence …”).
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I can certainly see it not being prevalent among your circles! I saw a lot of it being disseminated among ordinary people trying to decide on travel or conferences in my relatively highly-educated area.
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