Covid-2019 - 2022-02-20
Date:
Monday, February 21, 2022
Summary:
The New York Times' most establishment-friendly Covid reporter dances around it as best she can, but even she is scandalized that the CDC has deliberately withheld data unfavorable to the Master Narrative of vaccine effectiveness. This one is really worth it -- see "Recommended Reading" in today's report. Philosophical question: what is the optimal amount of public trust in institutions? Arguably there was too much in the pandemic. Considering how institutions are increasingly understood to have abused that trust, in the future will there be too little?