On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 03:02 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
Progressive communities have been home to some of the fiercest battles over COVID-19 policies...
"The CDC¡¯s initial public messaging that masks were ineffective¡ªfollowed by a quick public reversal¡ª seriously hindered the organization¡¯s ability to effectively communicate as the pandemic progressed. As we have seen, people are not simply passive consumers of media: anti-mask users in particular were predisposed to digging through the scientific literature and highlighting the uncertainty in academic publications.. When these uncertainties did not surface within public-facing versions of these studies, people began to assume that there was a broader cover-up.¡±
