But right now, there is no source we could give an uninformed person and say “all you need to do is listen to them”.
A lot of your arguments are of the form “they’re saying something untrue in an effort to get people to do the right thing”. So isn’t pointing an uninformed person at the CDC the correct thing to do, since we assume that on reading it they’ll end up doing the right thing?
Separate from the infohazardness of this post (discussed in other comments and fairly specific to the audience), it seems weird to prefer truth over consequences in what we tell arbitrary uninformed people who have no interest in rationality and just want to know what the best thing to do is?
A lot of your arguments are of the form “they’re saying something untrue in an effort to get people to do the right thing”. So isn’t pointing an uninformed person at the CDC the correct thing to do, since we assume that on reading it they’ll end up doing the right thing?
Separate from the infohazardness of this post (discussed in other comments and fairly specific to the audience), it seems weird to prefer truth over consequences in what we tell arbitrary uninformed people who have no interest in rationality and just want to know what the best thing to do is?