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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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.
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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.
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