Subject: Re: Ministry of Truth
Dope: But that's not what happened during COVID: nobody knew much, and a lot of what the government was saying was either flat-out wrong (get the vaccine and you can't spread the disease) or so highly nuanced that what they were saying was essentially wrong (wearing a mask stops COVID transmission) that what was needed was in fact a rigorous public debate.
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Lapsody: I followed Covid 19 scientific information for the first 1.5-2 years and there never was an advice or article, etc., that I read stating that if you got the vaccine you couldn't spread the disease. .... NEVER EVER did I ever read that masks STOPPED COVID transmission.

The information that the CDC disseminated reflected primarily what had been learned up to that point, and that was a work in progress. And when the CDC's knowledge was still evolving, at least any misconceptions were NOT of the kind that would significantly increase one's chances of getting covid, or getting very very ill with it, or dying from it. They would make life more inconvenient.....like when we were washing down everything we bought at the supermarket. But that was the extent of the "damage." But the misinformation/disinformation being spread by the anti-vaxxers, the anti-maskers, the people pushing Trump's trumpeted (and ineffective-to-harmful) treatments......these consequences were devastating. opg provided some statistics.