People Don’t Trust Public-Health
Experts Because Public-Health
Experts Don’t Trust People
New York Magazine,
by
David Wallace-Wells
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/21/2020 4:23:40 AM
Almost as soon as the first marches to protest the killing of George Floyd began, in Minneapolis on May 26, conservatives and COVID contrarians seized on the rallies as a case study of liberal coronavirus hypocrisy. If the disease spread rapidly through the assembled protesters, they felt, it would show that those who’d spent the spring scolding Americans for resisting lockdowns didn’t care as much about public health as they did about advancing their own set of political values. (Liberals, of course, would put it differently: that the cause was worth the risk.) If there were relatively few new cases, the thinking went, it would demonstrate
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LoneVoice 6/21/2020 5:21:36 AM (No. 451559)
No, the reason people don't trust public health experts and the media hysterically trying to to push the edicts of those "experts" even the slowest of us have caught on to their non stop lying adjenda.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/21/2020 6:12:04 AM (No. 451564)
Experts have been wrong so often. They rely on computer models that are wrong more often than not and in subtle and not so subtle ways show that they really, really don't like ordinary people. I have lost what little respect I had for them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/21/2020 6:45:05 AM (No. 451573)
Better: People Don’t Trust Public-Health Experts Because Public-Health Experts Lie.
15 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/21/2020 7:07:04 AM (No. 451581)
People no longer trust the so-called experts in public health, nor the technocrats who support them, because we've learned who they really are.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/21/2020 7:41:31 AM (No. 451597)
Public health experts (bureaucrats) are not trusted because they are either lie or are incompetent or both.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/21/2020 9:26:38 AM (No. 451691)
Public-Health experts have the same problem that weathermen do, they are depending on VERY imperfect statistical analysis. Neither expert has all the data or completely accurate data. Nor do the models they use accurately cover all cases. Still, it's all they have so they toss everything into the computer to make the sausage. To this point, fine, it's a computer calculation based on best guesses.
The problem is with how it is presented and its potential impact. Both types of experts confidently present their conclusions. We have become quite aware how flawed the weather forecasts can be. We expect discrepancies and plan for worse than expected weather. If it rains on our parade it's annoying but not fatal. It's a whole other story with Public-Health experts. Their predictions are presented with sincerity but with the same, or worse flaws. The average person has not realized how flawed their processes are so they are "shocked" that the experts are so wrong. Further, the "experts" predictions move massive government responses, for good or bad. We stayed at home and destroyed the economy. Was it a wise choice? Based on the experts initial analysis, yes. Based on reality, maybe not. Plus, the costs for such errors are enormous, not only in economic impact terms but in humans lives and suffering. Cuomo, in fear of the predicted numbers, for some insane reason, put COVID patients back into the most vulnerable nursing home populations. Most of all, the experts extreme predictions drive panic and panic based decisions are rarely good ones.
What we need to understand is that many "experts" use similar predictive statistics that are ALL flawed. They all present their findings with assurance and they are all wrong to varying degrees. The level of error may be a matter of a lucky guess rather than correct data or process. Such experts information should be treated as one type of input to a complex issue and a possible situation. People are looking for certainty. The reality is, there isn't any.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/21/2020 10:33:19 AM (No. 451765)
Trust isn't the problem here. The problem is all the health experts on the Left have a tin god complex and love the power they think they have. Look at Fauci and Birx and what those two did, and what they still want to do. Power corrupts, and in a leftist so-called expert, there is nothing more dangerous than giving them a taste of that power. We still have three states on the West Coast that are trying to squeeze play their residents, when is this going to stop?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/21/2020 10:44:20 AM (No. 451776)
Public health is politics. Public health depends on public financing. It need to prove its worth. Look at the millions of Americans saved from a terrible COVIDS death by following their critical suggestions. The curve was flattened. America proved itself a nation of heroes! And all because of its Blue Ribbon public health services and Big Medicine, using science-based policies and practices, and the co-operation of the public. Wasn't the sacrifice worth it?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/21/2020 11:57:15 AM (No. 451903)
Lie to me once, I'm done. Change your story, like they did on masks.....I'm REALLY done. I am not stupid, I understand the laws of physics far better than most people, and telling me that a mask with hole all over it that are 10,000 times larger than a virus is going to protect me from a virus is like putting up a chain link fence to keep out mosquitoes.
Actually, it is more like expecting the power lines to keep out mosquitoes because they can't squeeze under them to get to you.
And lots of other things. I just don't buy their BS any more. NO mask. I can see that if I was sick it may just slightly reduce the amount of virus particles I am exhaling....slightly is the key. But I am not sick. I wear a mask and keep my distance and keep my breathing direction away from my friend on chemotherapy for cancer in those rare chances I get to visit him. And we are outside. I understand that his immune system cannot stand another assault.
Otherwise, I wear a N95 mask when sanding and mowing. A cloth mask doesn't even keep out sanding dust well, particles thousands of times larger than a virus. And even a good N95 mask ....filters about 95% out, even for huge particles like wood sanding dust.
I don't buy their stories. Never have.
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