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They were supposed to be the experts. In practice your dog was a better expert than they were.

Being once wrong disqualifies then? What I really hate is that some parties have to be right all the time, while others only once. An expert is not the one who is never wrong, but the one who knows why he was wrong and changes his opinion once data and information changes.

There was sufficient data available from China before even COVID19 hit the US. You had to be either incompetent or malicious not to recommend masks.

Or you had to take one look at the toilet-paper shelf at your local grocery store, leading to the realization that if the same thing were to happen with PPE, it would be apocalyptic.

Not all lies are malicious. Some are necessary. "Masks aren't helpful" was one of those. Everyone with a three-digit IQ should have understood what was really going on, and everyone else was better off believing the lie.

I love how mask-off this comment is.

(Shrug) Realpolitik is real.

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