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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by maxerickson on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:50PM (#29273241)
Yeah, it's totally the fault of the CDC that people continue to do things that don't make sense. Totally a top down problem, all they had to do was get the messaging right and no one would have done anything wildly incoherent for the entire pandemic.
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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by Ensorceled on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:37PM (#29273526)
No one is asserting that the CDC/Health Canada mis-steps are the lone cause of the disastrous response to COVID.
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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by maxerickson on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:43PM (#29273570)
So now, even today, I see people wearing dirty rubber gloves in the grocery store (sigh).

That sentence is about CDC messaging.

There would be people wearing dirty rubber gloves in grocery stores if they did it perfect.

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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by timr on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:22AM (#29274095)
If the CDC and the WHO and "the experts" hadn't spent months flooding the airwaves with the message that people should be scared of fomites, while ignoring aerosols?

I think that might have played a role, yes.

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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by Ensorceled on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:51PM (#29273622)
Again, NO ONE is asserting that the CDC messaging is causing all the problems.

But it was, and id, certainly contributing to it.

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