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when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"

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exactly. every woo woo crank is selling some miracle cure snake oil, and it can't work by definition because if it did, then pharma companies, hospitals etc would be selling it instead bsky.app/profile/lego...

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right—the conspiracies fall apart because of the avarice of the pharma industry, not in spite of it. if Eli Lily had the cure for cancer they wouldn’t suppress it, they’d sell it at extortionate rates. we know this bc they did exactly that with the cure for obesity

all the worst incentives of Big Pharma without any of the scientific peer review apparatus to constrain them. that's how people end up gobbling horse paste, fish tank cleaner, colloidal silver etc

yeah. Fauci fucks up with masks (admittedly a bad fuck up) and somehow that discredits all science, but the cranks pay no penalty for being provably 180 degrees wrong about hydroxychlorquine, ivermectin, every vaccine, etc etc bsky.app/profile/idon...

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I love the veneer of rational skepticism used to dismiss credentialed experts and endorse uncritical faith in the most obvious hucksters on Earth. The CDC was wrong about something once, so we have to be ride or die for vaccine truth dot wordpress.

All I know is that during the worst of Covid I travelled several times on airplanes always wearing masks as were everyone else and for the first time I never got sick.

You see the same thing with the "mainstream media." To be fair, those institutions are quite rotten in their own way, but the response isn't a heightened level of skepticism or understanding of the perverse incentives and motivations. It's just embracing the worst liars and propagandists out there.

?? What was wrong with masks other than relaxing their use too soon? The one thing I remember best from the winter of 2020-21 was that NOBODY caught the flu because of masks (a lot of them cloth) and social distancing. And I fucking hate wearing a mask.

How did he fuck up with masks exactly? Masks limit the spread of aerosolized pathogens. This really isn’t in dispute. Are you talking about outdoor use? Lockdowns lasting too long?

He did not fuck up with masks. Why do people keep saying this? We STILL wear them in them in hospitals during flu/covid spikes and we never used to wear them before and they help. I haven't gotten covid from working in the ER, ever. Just from your friendly neighborhood Mall instead.

Talk to us hairstylists about masks not working. When shampooing hair, our faces are 10 inches from our clients faces. When shampooing out a color it's 10 inches for 10 minutes. I got Covid four times and it was after a wedding, eating in restaurants, and on a plane to FL. People are such babies.

At first they told us to wear makeshift masks because there weren't enough good ones for frontline healthcare workers. The makeshift masks were mostly worthless. Not sure that is on Fauci though.

Regarding masks, there was a bigger mistake that preceded Fauci's, and that was the failure of the entire pandemic preparedness "team" to make sure that masks were stockpiled. If this had been done, there's no mistake for Fauci to make. This is a DHHS-level mistake. It probably goes back decades.

Fauci anticipated our human tendency to be extremely selfish. I remember very vividly how quickly the good ones sold out. Health care workers needed the protective gear most of all and it was immediately in short supply.

yeah that's the problem though, he knew masks work--this has been obvious for 100+ years--he just lied about it to achieve another goal. not his job, seriously undermined trust, and it didn't even work