This article is tragic. The Trump administration's politicization of science kept Americans from having accurate information and when the dust settles will be shown to have caused massive death and suffering.
May we never have to re-learn this lesson. nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/…
May we never have to re-learn this lesson. nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/…
(Sadly, we will as long as the @GOP remains completely hostile to the idea of objective truth. See: climate change or the winner of the 2020 election, or allowing witness testimony at trials... or too, too many other examples.)
That in turn means that any full reckoning for this moment cannot happen on a bipartisan basis until the @GOP reforms itself, which is not likely any time soon.
But until they do, we have a zero-sum conflict between good, scientifically-informed policy and an elevation of bipartisanship above all else. Commitment to one comes at the expense of the other in the current incarnation of the @GOP.
To be clear, bipartisanship is not a bad thing. But the laws of science are immutable and not subject to negotiated compromise. When politics insists otherwise, it is an obstacle to human progress and needs to be recognized as such, not used to justify inaction.
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