I’ll b honest, I almost stopped reading when the you said “Throughout March, the CDC was telling people not to wear masks and not to get tested unless displaying symptoms.” as an example of how they got it wrong.
The reality is they did not encourage people to buy masks initially, because the very credible concern was that the public would hoard masks that were in short supply for people who absolutely needed them immediately. As soon as supplies were available, they recommended getting them for the public.
And similarly, the shortage of testing drove the very temporary discouragement of symptom-free people running out and getting tests.
Are you aware of these valid explanations?
Then I saw this: “When the article was written, prepping for COVID was associated with low-status China-hating reactionaries. The social role of progressive academics writing in progressive media was to mock them, and the good professor obliged. In February people like Sunstein mocked people for worrying about COVID in general, in March they mocked them for buying masks,”
If you have specific evidence of the claim about “progressive academics”, please let me know.
Absent that evidence, this seems like a gross generalization. The point could have been made without your politically motivated mocking. I ought not let this sort of thing prevent me from gleaning any insight from the rest of the article, but I just can’t stomach it, so I stopped there.
I’ll b honest, I almost stopped reading when the you said “Throughout March, the CDC was telling people not to wear masks and not to get tested unless displaying symptoms.” as an example of how they got it wrong.
The reality is they did not encourage people to buy masks initially, because the very credible concern was that the public would hoard masks that were in short supply for people who absolutely needed them immediately. As soon as supplies were available, they recommended getting them for the public.
And similarly, the shortage of testing drove the very temporary discouragement of symptom-free people running out and getting tests.
Are you aware of these valid explanations?
Then I saw this: “When the article was written, prepping for COVID was associated with low-status China-hating reactionaries. The social role of progressive academics writing in progressive media was to mock them, and the good professor obliged. In February people like Sunstein mocked people for worrying about COVID in general, in March they mocked them for buying masks,”
If you have specific evidence of the claim about “progressive academics”, please let me know.
Absent that evidence, this seems like a gross generalization. The point could have been made without your politically motivated mocking. I ought not let this sort of thing prevent me from gleaning any insight from the rest of the article, but I just can’t stomach it, so I stopped there.