more interesting/larger question is why e.g. European health authorities seem able to make these kinds of decisions with some nuance, and even reverse themselves, but in the US it’s all-or-nothing: vax good or vax bad
are US health authorities just more insecure people?
are US health authorities just more insecure people?
https://twitter.com/yossigestetner/status/1458400951790878723
what set of incentives and constraints do US health authorities perceive themselves to face that leads them to make all these decisions as clunky one-size-fits-all things, and then, act like they have to double down endlessly (e.g. on masks) instead of allow for further thought?
The ‘best’ spin I can put on this is that it’s a symptom of the complexity and diversity of the country, that CDC etc. just sees themselves as having very little ‘natural’ authority or sway with a large % of the population, and is very conscious of that, affects their messaging
(a worse spin is that for whatever institutional they are, by and large, simply lower-quality people and thinkers compared to their Euro counterparts. I can’t rule this out.)
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