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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article in the Guardian is what I have been trying to communicate in this thread (and in real time in 2020 and 2021)

Our politicians abdicated their responsibility to make balanced policy decisions due to fear and let the public health considerations around covid completely overwhelm the social cohesion, economic and other health considerations (mental health, cancer screenings).

The class based response to covid drove the current rise of populism and lead to citizens deep distrust and lack of support for our research and public health organizations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/covid-policies-lockdown-masks-liberals-book

"The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a wargaming exercise in October 2019, shortly before the pandemic began, to simulate a deadly coronavirus pandemic; the findings explicitly urged that “[t]ravel and trade … be maintained even in the face of a pandemic”. Similarly, a WHO paper in 2019 said that some measures – such as border closures and contact tracing – were “not recommended in any circumstances”.

“And yet we did all of that in short order,” Macedo said, “and without people referring back to these plans.”

He and Lee also believe there was a strong element of class bias, with a left-leaning “laptop class” that could easily work from home touting anti-Covid measures that were much easier for some Americans to adopt than others. Many relatively affluent Americans became even wealthier during the pandemic, in part due to rising housing values.

At the same time, the laptop class was only able to socially isolate at home in part because other people risked exposure to provide groceries. "
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This has zero to do with what RFK is doing at HHS. On the margins sure we need to look at public health messaging. What does firing researchers and promoting debunked theories have to do with this? [/quote]

The public's ill will generated by covid overreach makes it politically palatable to gut public health institutions [/quote]

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