Re:How This Ends
by josephcsible on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:07PM
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> the public couldn’t handle the facts
That sounds a lot like saying "I'm smarter than you, so I'm going to lie to you, but trust me, it's for your own good".
Re:How This Ends
by randomsearch on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:16PM
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Except they accidentally did a real-world experiment and we discovered that people needed to be consoled and not confronted too suddenly with the inevitable
When scientists in the U.K. started talking about herd immunity - the only way out of a pandemic - people went nuts and they quickly had to stop using the term and start reassuring more than informing.
Average pandemic is about four years, not much has changed. They just had to keep people going at the time.