How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by code_runner on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:41AM (#34149556)

I have personally had discussions with people about this. I’m about as liberal as they come, but a lot of covid guidance was confusing in the beginning and I think that admitting that has somehow become taboo. It’s still weird that I feel the need to clarify my political stance on an apolitical issue like this. As time went on messaging improved, but the initial confusion was definitely there.

Nobody knew what was going on, I read as much about covid as I could (including HN comments about something to do with quinine that was popular for a day or two)

This is the source I found https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...

I think there is a big time Mandela effect here. I remember “don’t buy masks” as being about preserving masks for essential workers and medical professionals, I don’t necessarily recall the portion where they said it didn’t help infection rates, but yet there it is.

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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by cbsmith on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:54PM (#34157352)

> "a lot of covid guidance was confusing in the beginning and I think that admitting that has somehow become taboo."

I think any reasonable person can acknowledge there's a huge leap between "I was confused by what you said" and "YOU LIED TO ME!!!!"

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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by ropable on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:05PM (#34167753)

It's almost as though they were operating with incomplete, imperfect information at that time, and they needed to make some best-effort guesses based on previous events.

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