Maybe all the confusion and
politics and questionable statements now are reasons why governments remained
mostly silent when the 1918 flu took millions.
From The Atlantic.
“Our national
pandemic conversation, like almost everything else, has turned into a
polarized, contentious tug-of-war in which evidence sometimes matters less than
what team someone is on. And in a particularly American fashion, we’ve turned a
public-health catastrophe into a fight among factions, in which the virus is
treated as a moral agent that will disproportionately smite one’s ideological
enemies—while presumably sparing the moral and the righteous—rather than as a
pathogen that spreads more effectively in some settings or through some
behaviors, which are impervious to moral or ideological hierarchy. Add in our
broken digital public sphere, where anger and outrage more easily bring in the
retweets, likes, and clicks, and where bikini pictures probably do not hurt,
and we have the makings of the confused, unscientific, harmful, and
counterproductive environment we find ourselves in now.”
Link at maggiesfarm.
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