So everyone is a COVID expert now huh? Right. Where is the epistemic humility?

Just type ‘Covid’ in the search bar and see what shows up for this year, in particular August and September.

There are several writers commenting on the return of the pandemic. These include artists, actors, models, writers and self-identified cat-ladies.

Their claim is of course about the dangers of Covid that hadn’t really gone away, and that we therefore need to consider the same restrictions we did since 2020: masking, distancing, etc.

Some of these claims are made at the expense of a ridiculed someone rather than critically evaluated data; in one piece, it’s the mother of the author who is a lost QANON conspiracy theorist, in another article it’s ‘stupid Trump supporters’. Yes, very rigorous and intelligent. And brave — not predictable at all.

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