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The 21st Century Salonnière's avatar

Exactly so. There’s very little understanding that losing the public’s trust is devastating in a crisis.

The public is deliberately, calculatedly misled both in mainstream media and in prestigious journals (and it’s still going on—see Worobey’s resurrection of the wet market hypothesis in Science a couple months ago, when even China long since abandoned that) and then our leaders wonder, “Why oh why don’t people mask up / take the vaccine/ follow our guidance?”

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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

Once folks knew that they were playing with fire, the poured gasoline on it

Wow

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