For policy makers to earn the respect and attention of the average Joe, to impart important and scientifically sound information. If they're so bad at the job that they can't refute the ideas of Covid flat-earthers, maybe nobody should be listening to what they have to say anyway.

The real issue is that the media and many authorities have squandered their trust and political capital. And now instead of building that up they want to substitute authoritarianism and censorship.

How about let me read what I want and mind your own business? What makes you think you're smarter than the average joe and in position to dictate anything to him at all?

Perhaps to remember that every average Joe is equipped with their own brain and ability to think for themselves.

The role of science is to study topics empirically. It is not to establish sacred truths that need to be protected from scrutiny.

A few years ago if you said the big tech firms were each working on establishing their own ministry of truth, most people would have told you to take your tinfoil hat off. But this is exactly what we are seeing now. Independent thought is not a problem that needs to be solved. The only reason we are in this situation to begin with is because these institutions have done so much to tarnish their own credibility, that they now think the best solution is to limit people’s ability to think for themselves. It’s horribly dystopic.

I think the best option is to go to the same doctor for many years, and build a relationship of trust, and then ask them for their opinion.

Trusting their intuition.