It’s not about screaming, it’s about the enforceable law that was crafted with your profession’s consultation, a law that closes off all manner of human activity, except, apparently for causes you like.https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1269222577324666880 …
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Public health folks probably should have spoken out more when people in parks/beaches were shamed (not by public health people always! But still) even into May and June. I personally would never risk a pool party but went to a protest myself. But both do risk transmission chains.
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Plus, personally, I think it's unconscionable that we did not let people visit their dying relatives with whatever PPE they could personally muster, if or a few minutes, or with the promise of quarantine afterwards. We did that to break transmission chains, I get it but...
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There has got to be some acknowledgment that the nuance folks are now demanding is wildly more difficult in the teeth of president’s relentless production of disinformation. Oversimplied public comms may not be first-best resort and yet may be strategically optimal.
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No doubt we're fighting a barrage of misinformation. That's what makes trying to preserve the nuance and the trust especially important. I mean, we're at a point that CDC guidelines have to be leaked. Public health people are doing double/triple duty. Not fair, but here we are.
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