HumongousChungus [she/her]
ok so are you getting ready or…
except the accelerated cognitive decline but that’s happening to everybody so it’s ok :)
I mean, he basically blames his abdication of the principles of public health on “how science is supposed to work”, which is an outright lie. Precautionary principle dictates behavior that he signed on to abandoning and continues to justify refusing to enact. Also, he still refuses to recognize the larger failure, namely trying to spread the disease to the vulnerable in the hopes of a manageable die-off and quick return to normal (10k cases a day in his estimation), the one that’s given all his readers a high risk of long term effects, because that’s still not very well known. He only admits to the failures that people already recognize, which is defensiveness, not accountability.
looking into this
Many of his harshest critics during the worst of that time became soft-supporters, eventually morphing into diehard fans after a decade or so. I do wonder, in hindsight, how much of that was due to his social skills and politicking ability. Like with the WHO, these large groups of scientific or medical professionals usually end up being led not by the most well-rounded or logical of them, but those who are best at hobknobbing and social manipulation.
limiting public health messaging and reducing the data collection that informs good decisions
OH WHAT A FUCKING TRAGEDY
I WOULD JUST DIE A THOUSAND DEATHS IF THE REPUBLICANS DID THIS
not if the Democrats do it with COVID, though, uwu