We're there, now, finally with acceptance. (Did something important happen last year?) Will we learn from what went wrong? (Not every country and not every expert was wrong or this late). Also key: will we fix this? Better ventilation would be an enormous gain even post-pandemic.
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Better ventilation and indoor air-quality, more access to outdoors, and the recognition of the importance of aerosol transmission for many pathogens, not just this one, would be a lasting benefit. Amidst the tragedy these are among productive gains: mRNA vaccines, ventilation.
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The desire for amnesia is understandable. Things are raw, it's not even over and being wrong is painful—especially when the stakes were so high, and people thought they were helping by acting on best knowledge they had. But understanding how things went awry is how we fix things.
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Honestly, before, I thought Kuhnian "paradigm shift" theories were too simplistic; that groupthink, while of course real—and we teach it as a key sociological concept—was more marginal/limited; and Michels/Weber were maybe a bit outdated in their strictness of org theory? lol me
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Secondary tragedy is the follow-on effects as it relates to the increasing “distrust the experts” culture. So many authorities and experts have given that movement (if we can call it that) legitimate fodder.
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I’ve been a card carrying establishment shill my whole life and this has destroyed my faith in experts. The amount of incorrect or misleading science or scicomm in media outlets I implicitly trusted is disappointing. Guess I’m doomed to a miasma of confusion the rest of my life.
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Health authorities may have made small gains making PPE available to health workers but the damage they did and are doing to their credibility is UNFORGIVABLE. We can follow their recommendations or dismiss them with similar confidence.
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This makes me think that more of the school year should be moved to the fair-weather months to facilitate well-ventilated classrooms.
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Had they tried to cage me during a Vermont summer as a teen I would have acted out worse than the worst anti-mask Karen. But that was before personal screen time.
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It was a classic academic turf war over semantics that we all got caught up in
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