Public health experts are underselling the likely effectiveness of the vaccines -- part of a broader pattern of not trusting the public with the truth.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html …
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One of the reasons for the decline of respect for expertise is the decline in respect for the wisdom of regular folks.
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Yes, seeing the dynamics of the responses to the pandemic has fully convinced me that the probability of humanity dealing effectively with the much more serious threat of climate change is approximately nil.
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at least insomuch as "humanity" involves Europe and America
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Harvard law prof who, even at the END OF FEBRUARY, was mocking pandemic talk as “irrational” now heads WHO social science committee & the prominent US MD who pushed masks are false sense of security into the summer is in Biden COVID task force. (I’m sure he’s an excellent MD).

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Amazing anyone is still alive.
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and the message of how often to dispose of masks never was given effectively.
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What happens when a pandemic & US Presidential elections come together? “Scientifically Informed” P-doc claims Trump has a 156 genius IQ, “Life Coach” guy defends David Icke, All American nutrition Chiropracter downplays COVID death numbers 2 weeks before the election & holidays.
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Incredibly true. I remember one early March presser with then-NYC health chief Barbot. One remember asked can’t it help even some if people where a surgical mask? Her answer was that she’d recently seen a guy in the city wearing a mask that he’d pulled down to smoke a cigarette.
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2/ I remember thinking, how is this kind of non sequitur the basis or logic behind this guidance? It was of course put in the guise of false sense of security, incorrect use etc. It was clear that denial of the efficacy of masking was a kind of idee fixe around which a changing..
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