I have a running list. Masks are the worst. It's so wrong that it will go down in history. So, WHO misinformed us on human-to-human and asymptomatic transmission. That's how we got a pandemic. WHO misinformed us on travel bans. That was insanely wrong, too.
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CDC misinformation has helped turn this into a terrible epidemic in NYC, with masks leading the top. It's not a marginal issue. It's perhaps the number one tool in the arsenal. CDC just issued a bullshit advisory targeting only NYC/NJ after Trump quarrel with Coumo.
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(Mask misinformation, by the way, is one key reason why nursing homes have outbreaks).
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In general, I think the academic field of misinformation is fighting the last war. Social media disinformation is real, but nothing compared to the WHO/CDC crisis which will go down in history as one of the biggest failures in their history, if not the biggest.
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(You'll note I'm not mentioning Trump admin misinformation! That's a whole other ball of wax.) The stuff on masks is honestly Saddam had WMD level misinformation. Health authorities in Hong Kong or Taiwan aren't idiots and the evidence is not even complicated.
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Replying to @sivavaid @katestarbird
It's not "bad advice." It's straight up dis/misinformation, or we would call it that if it came from, say, a VC, G Paltrow, curveball, or Denver Guardian... WHO mis/disinformation revolves most on their China links and one day, a journalist will find the receipts.
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One on masks is also straight up dis/misinfo. Here, too, a journalist will eventually find the receipts, if it was a noble lie or racism (not believing Hong Kong/Taiwan had the smarts) or WHO didn't want to upset China's own run on masks? We will learn. Many will die, though.
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I would like to see evidence about the backstory, too! But, and this may be our disagreement, I believe that the misinformation is right before our eyes. I feel like I did in run up to the Iraq War. I read the papers and I was like, are you kidding me? It was all clearly untrue.
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