It's good to see @zeynep call out the flaws in mainstream Covid coverage (and there were/are many). But framing it as the result of "partisan polarization" & equating it in any way with the dangerous delusion & disinformation from the right goes too far.https://zeynep.substack.com/p/how-polarization-ate-our-brains …
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Yes, there have been mistakes aplenty, and we need to learn from them. You are a treasure that way. But I do maintain that by any measure, the damage is incomparable. So I'm not comfortable with the "both sides" framing which was central to that particular piece.
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I mean, we've run the experiment at the top: Trump v. Biden. No comparison.
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Park closures were a policy mistake followed by corrections in light of accumulating evidence. It wasn't a disinformation issue.
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That's not exactly correct, but that's part of the part two of the trifecta. The evidence was clear and overwhelming about a year ago, and many parks are still closed and beaches shamed, to this day. "Accumulating evidence" has become part of the face-saving denial, imo.
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