Problem for Biden/health officials is they haven't been upfront throughout. They pushed specific restrictive policies and insisted that any disagreement with their approach was anti-science. Now that they are trying to shift to a more balanced approach and both sides are pissed.
The left is pissed because they bought into that message so now that there is a shift and they see Fauci etc. repeating lines they previously dismissed, they think the admin is turning anti-science. The right is pissed bc it's an admission that they weren't honest.
Public policy needed to be more nuanced. There were legitimate balancing questions between protecting people from the virus, protecting mental health, economic impacts etc.
Those all got dismissed at the time and anyone that advocated for more balance was attacked.
Those all got dismissed at the time and anyone that advocated for more balance was attacked.
Now that doesn't mean there weren't actual anti-science charlatans that took advantage. They used the poor messaging and dishonesty of health officials to promote conspiracies anti-vax nonsense etc.
But that's a different issue.
But that's a different issue.
(Deleting the rant about the past) At this point, we have a population mostly well-protected against severe illness, plenty of tools to fight it, and a milder variant. The virus is now endemic and little risk to most. So now we have to move to the post-pandemic stage.
But the current admin/health officials don't know how to make that shift (which should have really been made last year) because they have so obsessively attacked the idea of moving forward and considering other costs until now that they have lost everyone's trust.
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