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No need to tiptoe. It’s been six months. You can call it bullshit and demand a real plan instead of a political escape plan.

> it puts public health policymakers in a dilemma

> they have to walk a line between fully detailed truth, and simplified advice that people en masse are more inclined to believe and follow

I know they are acting in good faith. However, the field also has a lot of received wisdom that may or may not be true. There’s clearly a bag of tricks they believe must be used to achieve a set of self-set goals, and I think a more straightforward approach along with dialogue would have been wiser in this instance.

The alternative is that some people will lose trust and won’t comply. You don’t want that if your plan requires everyone to comply.

Saying they don’t work or aren’t necessary was a lie. I’m honestly not trying to stir anything up here, but a lie is a lie.

Here’s an interview where Fauci discusses point-blank why the American public was mislead, and it had nothing to do with data: https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

We need to hold our leaders to a higher standard. All of them. Red, blue, green, whatever.

Okay, okay, I’m as down with the science as anybody but those numbers sound a lot like cherry-picking. They also don’t jive with the info that’s trickled out suggesting that a plurality of infections are happening in the home, at restaurants, or while attending unmasked gatherings.

Sorry, I was summarizing several replies and wasn’t trying to make a personal attack against you. My hope was to point out that there are other ways of looking at things.

You seem to be coming at things in terms of patient trade-offs. I’m saying that AbbVie loves selling more Humira, and some sort of hypothetical magical anti-infective would’ve been a way to do so.

Sounds like that is the prevailing opinion amongst software engineers on HN. “If the product doesn’t exist, then the market doesn’t exist” isn’t how biology works. I assure you that many in life sciences would kill to get their hands on a successful therapeutic program in this area. There is a wide world of markets available.

NyQuil’s and Alka Seltzer’s sales figures beg to differ.

I think silencing criticism of human rights abuses is bad. Your whataboutism does not cut it here.

Seems a little extreme if our goal is just to get more people using public transportation.

Validity of these findings aside, a brief look at the headlines on the source site (psypost.org) suggests it may be a news outlet that plays to confirmation bias in order to generate shares on social media.

Neverending lockdowns belong in the dustbin of history besides eugenics and nonconsensual human experimentation. The virus is endemic. The fact that people don’t really understand that is a leadership failure. Let’s all move on.