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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by Rebelgecko on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:44AM (#26957503)
When the CDC says "Don't wear a mask, it won't help you", that has the effect of degrading trust in the CDC. People who know that's BS won't trust the CDC in the future, and people who don't know that's BS will lose trust when the CDC flip-flops and says that maybe masks actually are helpful. I think that contributed to the politicization of mask wearing in the US.
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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by icelancer on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:57PM (#26959979)
The noble lie. Never works. Contributes to populism.
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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by craftinator on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:15PM (#26972980)
The upside is that it tells us who the morons and bad actors are. If a person repeats this "guidance", you immediately know they either have chosen not to think the situation through at all, or they are trying to push some agenda because their stated position makes no sense. Noise in a signal is a signal.
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