The worst part of the Nate Silvery nonsense today is that every epidemiologist, especially every infectious disease epidemiologist, is exhausted right now. They’ve been worried and overworked since January. Everything they’ve worried about, warned about, has come true.
It is exhausting and dispiriting to play Cassandra for months. Many of them have done so while their research budgets have been frozen, while their universities have imposed austerity on them. They’ve put their actual research on hold.
And they’ve done this while playing epidemiologist on call to all their friends and relatives, often while being forced to play Covid police (people call and bargain: can I do X? What about if I do it in Y way? Please?)
You want a story about people not listening to science or scientists, Mr Numbers Opinion Guy? Why don’t you ask university administrations the role their public health schools in planning this academic year, then ask public health school deans what that did to morale.
“Mr Numbers Opinion Guy” adapted from @sillyhead.
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