[throwawayzRUU6f]

This has been the saddest part of the pandemic to me. The epistemology of health policy is completely broken - fully reliant on arguments from authority, impervious to contrary evidence, initial beliefs clutched onto until the bitter end. Opinion makers are unable to distinguish between entertaining an idea and embracing it.

This lead to predictable debacles on mask usage, airborne spread, everyone's pet theories of innate population immunity, seasonality of the virus, virus origins, etc.

And yet - there are zero calls for introspection, blameless post-mortems. Nobody seems to care.

[_y5hn]

This is just "bread and circus". Those who look deeper down will see more going on underneath the layers of policymaking. Though, the real workers will need support for new ideas and improvements later.

[recursivedoubts]

tragically underrated post

i view the last decade (perhaps two) as a complete shattering of nearly all epistemology and social trust

we are all now wandering in a forest of mirrors

or perhaps, rather, this is not a new condition, and we merely understand it

[_y5hn]

Nobody expects the Spanish I^Hpandemic, that only happens once every 100 years or so. This should be expected, and the previous administration did everything to demolish whatever was left of pandemic response teams and plans, before it hit.