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A comment on Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures. Parent comment

Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by empath75 on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:47PM (#22670977)
What is panic and why do you think this is a panic? If anything, the lack of concern by policy makers and the public has turned this into a catastrophe. If they had “panicked” three months ago, we wouldn’t be in this situation now.
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by ineedasername on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:05PM (#22671110)
Unfortunately, if we had panicked 3 months ago and prevented all of this, we'd never know it. People would just look and say, "see it was no big deal, we panicked for nothing".
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