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when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"

Dastardly Elites Are Lying to You and Trying to Suppress My Truth is alas an incredibly effective propaganda angle

exactly. every woo woo crank is selling some miracle cure snake oil, and it can't work by definition because if it did, then pharma companies, hospitals etc would be selling it instead bsky.app/profile/lego...

all the worst incentives of Big Pharma without any of the scientific peer review apparatus to constrain them. that's how people end up gobbling horse paste, fish tank cleaner, colloidal silver etc

yeah. Fauci fucks up with masks (admittedly a bad fuck up) and somehow that discredits all science, but the cranks pay no penalty for being provably 180 degrees wrong about hydroxychlorquine, ivermectin, every vaccine, etc etc bsky.app/profile/idon...

And they were only "wrong" about masks because they A. We trying to protect our insufficient stock of PPE and B. Didn't know enough about a novel virus yet.

yeah that's the problem though, he knew masks work--this has been obvious for 100+ years--he just lied about it to achieve another goal. not his job, seriously undermined trust, and it didn't even work

Imagine if he had said "go get a mask and wear it all the time". We would have instantly run out of PPE for healthcare workers and first responders. And likely some kind of "rationing" by the fed government (led by Kushner). And would have likely prevented the option for stay at home orders.

This shows what Fauci was saying at the time. - not perfect protection - think of healthcare workers and people currently sick - we don't want a shortage Pretty close to what you're saying he should have said! www.factcheck.org/2020/05/outd...