I’m satisfied with the response - not sure what you’re so upset about.
As someone who has been through more than one natural disaster the fear and panic is absolutely destructive and often worse than the event itself. Remains to be seen in this case.
Look at all the wackos posting to youtube saying this is god’s sign he is coming back, etc. Those people absolutely don’t need a platform.
To summarize some important bullet points of the USG's failure:
- FDA blocked hospitals from using their existing equipment to test for the virus with an old regulation that has been sitting on the books for a while.
- FDA blocked Seattle Flu study from testing their flu samples for Coronavirus, which would have A. provided an invaluable measure of the early spread in the Washington crisis, and B. provided us with crucial data about the deadliness of the virus untainted by the "asymptomatic cases aren't tested" issue that still hasn't been perfectly resolved. This would have significantly reduced panic.
- CDC indicated masks didn't help, and the establishment media took that and ran with it. Stigma against mask-wearers, instead of being reduced, was fueled. Fortunately now the error has been realized and people are being advised to cobble together masks from whatever they can find.
There are many other examples of the agencies not doing enough, but those are debatable because you can always argue that the action was impossible for one reason or another. However in these examples it would have been better for the government to do nothing, and you can't claim they lack the ability to do that. The most expensive and capable research/medical apparatus in the world can do little to help when it is being actively hindered.
I don't see how you can logically that say something will give you a false sense of security. If you know it isn't truly secure, and are saying that it gives people a false sense of security, then you know enough to not have that sense yourself. I won't debate your first point though, if you would rather stay home than breathe hot air then that's your choice. However, it may not be socially integrative to go out not wearing a mask for that reason.
"False sense of security" is literally the reason stated by Dr. Birx for why the CDC made it a recommendation and not a guideline.
> you know enough to not have that sense yourself.
That's the thing about a false sense of security - you do things subconsciously when you feel protected. You may or may not realize it, but only after you've done it.
I understand how someone who was misinformed could have a false sense of security, but is there any evidence that a person who is informed can have a false sense of security? It sounds like something that you would need to show, as opposed to being an obviously correct assumption.
In mid-January or so, the R0 and early CFR values for this thing were publicly available. Authorities such as the WHO and the CDC, and their lackey journalists in the media (both left and right, Vice and Fox) were beating the It's Just The Flu, Bro drum for a full month and a half since then.
Meanwhile, anonymous tweeps with anime avatars were digging into the numbers and disseminating the real news. It's one of those situations where you don't even need expert opinion, just a cursory understanding of what the numbers mean and the ability to write a 30 line monte carlo simulation in python.
So yes, being angry that the experts and journalists were actively trying to get people killed while an army of people with 73 followers and Yu-Gi-Oh avatars were the real heroes is fully justified.
It's so cartoonishly comical that Hanlon's Razor doesn't really apply. Malice is quite evident in this case, and it would be nice to see every JTFB type held to account when this is all over.
As someone who has been through more than one natural disaster the fear and panic is absolutely destructive and often worse than the event itself. Remains to be seen in this case.
Look at all the wackos posting to youtube saying this is god’s sign he is coming back, etc. Those people absolutely don’t need a platform.