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[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:10 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On the other hand, I worry about the precedent for ignoring public health
> officials. What if we really do “get the big one”?
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### We should ignore public health officials.

Even genuine peer-reviewed top-level scientists and physicians know little,
often are pompous fools and when interacting with politicians suffer from
further degradation of their analytic capacity (see Ferguson, Fauci or that
woman Kizzmekia). Public health officials are a couple of notches below
scientists. Hardly any of them have any genuine medical or science
background. The Alameda health lady has a degree in sociology, or something
of that kind.

Predicting the future is difficult, and even very smart scientists have
difficulties with this task, to say nothing of the diverse officials who
are eager to guide us.

We should distrust everybody and especially when they try to sell us very
expensive goods, like a war or a mass house arrest. When the big epidemic
hits, we'll know it soon enough, and we could respond appropriately not out
of faith in officials but based on a reasonable assessment of the situation.

Rafal
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