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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Park closures were a policy mistake followed by corrections in light of accumulating evidence. It wasn't a disinformation issue.
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Replying to @beyerstein @froomkin
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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