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Jun 27, 2022Liked by Kathryn DeFea

I like the phrase "...this urge to condescend turned authoritarian." It describes so well this character flaw in the highly trained, highly intelligent but also arrogant class of pundits, journalists, doctors and scientists -- and maybe even in people generally?

I also appreciate "COVID statistics cannot be compared to influenza statistics because they are not calculated the same way." This clear statement needs to be repeated all over the place. If we'd all heard and internalized this at the start of the pandemic, it would have transformed our insane fear of Covid 19 into something we could reasonably manage.

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