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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

People ask me why the COVID contrarians were needed. Why did the first Trump White House align with rightwing billionaires and orgs to find credentialed ppl who looked good on TV that would deny COVID severity and yell about lockdowns? This is why

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Clean Observer
@hammbear2024.bsky.social

It’s a huge part of why he was able to come back. It doesn’t get the discussion in political spaces because too many notionally left leaning people got snowed by bullshit, too.

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

As with all good political comms-slash-propaganda, there are real, deep, sentiments being exploited — people’s lives were changed and they were angry and looking for explanations. But we let them, mostly unchallenged, shift blame, to the great detriment of public health

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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

If we could all learn just one lesson from this, it would be for all the science leaders to stop reading the damn Murdoch WSJ Opinion page