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Only if the decision to evacuate was necessary. I wonder, but don't know

Many people here are talking like the government forced them to evacuate. Perhaps they did. But if your family was there, would you stick around?

I'd be getting my family the flying f outta there. Not logically deducing outcomes and risk factors on HN.

Hindsight is 20 20...

The government and media can also just lie to people to influence their actions.

E.g. due to propaganda, people thought that Covid is 100x as deadly as it actually is (people estimated on average that infection fatality rate was 10%, when in reality it’s ~ 0.1%)

If true ... is that a lie, or the inability to know scientific fact before it's been studied?

Applies both to Fukushima and Covid response.

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