He could've just asked the head of the cdc, who had been saying that for a while until she joined this admin and had to stay six feet away from science at all times
Look, it's not like the six feet rule was arbitrary. It didn't come from nowhere. But it wasn't the considered opinion of the cdc director, whose judgment we are told to follow closely. Not every dissent from the strictest rule was some tinfoil conspiracy theory.
Personally I like having the govt tell everyone to stay six feet away from me, so I'm good with this. And I don't think it's that noticeable, unless I'm on line at Walmart and therefore standing in a different time zone from the cashier. But it's a good example of the orthodoxy.
It's actually a lot like Orthodox Judaism in that regard. We all pretend fowl is meat, but we all know we're pretending.
I'm happy to go along with it for the sake of others, but let's not strut about it. If you're milking a chicken my first question ain't about kashrus.
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To err is human and I don't want to pile on but this one seems substantial to everyone's understanding of the episode and its aftermath, no?
Yeah the source might've crossed this line. Not like the overarching episode is fundamentally different but a couple of those quotes--'find the fraud' in particular--were narrative-shaping so I'd be pissed at the source.
The idea that Cuomo belongs anywhere other than prison is indefensible at this point, though it was true a long time ago when some of us were trying to explain it to you. Instead he'll co-anchor his brother's CNN slot, I'm sure. More discerning minds can decide if that's the same
Here's why some of us oppose cancel culture consistently: institutional response to Bari at the NYT was cheered on heartily by ppl at the NYT, this time they get an angry outcry. They were wrong to do it both cases but were told last time they'd be wrong *not* to do it.
Conservatives, myself included, spent this week defending Will Wilkenson because right and wrong doesn't depend on political affiliation. Institutions will react this way until the public sends them a message that they ought not to.
I still don't even understand what happened to Wolfe from the NYT perspective: editors have opinions! And express them! It's actually part of the job much of the time. Hold institutions accountable for playing 'three felonies a day' with ppl's livelihoods.
*checks back in, sees the news is they fired Wilkinson over an obvious joke tweet, feels good about spending most of this day off this hellsite, sell the team*
I don't understand why ppl are still getting fired over bad joke tweets when we have a mechanism appropriately calibrated to deal with bad tweets now! The List!
When we create multinational institutions like The List, or NATO, to express the combined democratic will of the free world, it undermines the post-cold war social order to take matters into your own hands. Niskanen Center just made the world less safe.
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