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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Replying to @zeynep
(I remain a big fan, but...) Your headline and your main theme enthusiastically assert that both sides have eaten their own brains. I don't think the caveat at the end gets you off the hook. There really is almost no comparison, but you made it.
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Replying to @froomkin
Thank you! I feel like I'm examining one piece of a puzzle in a newsletter, and make that clear at top and the bottom. On the almost "no comparison": on some things (like muzzling the CDC) I agree. On other things like closing parks? What's the measure? Level of harm? Dynamics?
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Replying to @zeynep
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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Appreciate both of you interacting on this. Question for Dan: How does one look at mistakes made by dems then without being called out as an "equivalence" malefactor? Political polarization HAS made this difficult but we need honesty to improve responses. Thx again.
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Yeah, that's my question, too.
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