It’s not really a question that can be determined by “data”. I don’t think that’s a reasonable demand. Also it’s just a recommendation. If you don’t like it, do something different. There’s too much second-guessing of questions that have no clear answers.
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Interesting argument. CDC recommendations should not be critiqued because they’re just recommendations.
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Also, there’s plenty of data (not sure why you think there isn’t). I recommend following
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@zeynep is also a great person to follow on these issues. She just wrote this amazing op-ed which ditto’s what I’m trying to say re CDC.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/omicron-covid-testing-cdc.html …2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
I think this is a terrible article. No, people do have to figure things out on their own, not rely on authorities to tell them what to think. That’s the whole lesson of the AIDS pandemic!!
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Oh boy. You really learned the wrong lesson. AIDS was a crisis fueled by government inaction. Start with Randy Shilts, then read
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You were there, but to me the lesson of GMHC and ACT UP was that the people affected know better what they need than a govt bureaucracy ever will. You need govt resources, but if you just rely on govt to decide what is needed, that's never going to work.
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The AIDS research budget at the NIH tripled during ACT UP’s first three years. I wouldn’t be tweeting to you now if not for massively increased government involvement in the fight against AIDS. You have learned a false lesson from the history of AIDS activism
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Tufekci's column argues that the CDC should tell the people what to do, and then complains that in her view they get it wrong. I think that's the inevitable result if you rely on someone else. We should decide for ourselves, not expect a govt bureaucracy to tell us what to think.
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This is so absurd. You rely on the government to keep you safe every time you go shopping for food. Every prescription pill you have taken. Every time you drive a car. Most of the "buyer beware" people couldn't survive a month in an actual place where you are really on your own.
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I get this "we'll do it on our own" from many tech people—they conveniently ignore everything they absolutely rely on government and institutions to function, and then argue we should make it even harder for the rest of us, without as much money, to have institutions to rely on.
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(And because they have money, they get a lot of people who hand around but who won't say this to them—classic poisoning of critical thinking. Anyway, I'll take this seriously if any of them actually go really on their own somewhere, for real, without a fortress of excess wealth).
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I don't understand how you turned my objection that govt *advice* generally isn't all that good and that people need to make their own decisions, to the idea that govt has no role or that we are all just on our own. Of course we need govt *resources*.
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