FIAR Light on Nostr: Indeed. Scientific American is amazing. "COVID is a good case study for illustrating ...
Indeed. Scientific American is amazing.
"COVID is a good case study for illustrating the collective-denial playbook that underpins our new normal reality. A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make it difficult to know about—by scaling back COVID tracking, for instance. In April the CDC ended the requirement that hospitals report COVID admissions and occupancy data, removing one of the last tools we could use to monitor what’s happening."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/
"COVID is a good case study for illustrating the collective-denial playbook that underpins our new normal reality. A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make it difficult to know about—by scaling back COVID tracking, for instance. In April the CDC ended the requirement that hospitals report COVID admissions and occupancy data, removing one of the last tools we could use to monitor what’s happening."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/