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Last Checked July 9, 2020

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Sun Jun 28 13:48:04 +0000 2020

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A key thing that the suppression success stories have in common is that they, you know, tried. Which is something the public health community in the United States only started recommending very late in the game. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 28, 2020 Hibernated

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There were a bunch of specific failures are masks & non-symptomatic spread, but also recall that on a conceptual level the strategy of allowing the virus to keep spreading ("flatten the curve") rather than aim for suppression was initially an expert-driven recommendation. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 28, 2020 Hibernated

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To bring it back to Trump, he's fed off anti-expert sentiment but the existence of groupthink and bureaucratic inertia are actually reasons why you really want smart, hard-working, widely read, attentive presidents rather than undisciplined and anti-intellectual ones. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 28, 2020 Hibernated

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