@TrevorGoodchild@poa.st @Shadowman311@poa.st "I've said this before but the medical establishment burned over a century's worth of hard-earned public trust in half a decade. For nothing. Fucking nothing"
Perfectly understandable if your switch focus from "the medical establishment" to the individuals in it, their positions, ego, rice bowls, being in a modern Left holiness spiral, and the public health one having grown tired of infectious disease control (well, prior to Biden's CDC head pick). For example:
Saint Fauci organized a campaign against the lab leak hypothesis to protect past and future true mad scientist research, as well as what would have been excesses in stamping that out. But too much info escaped containment, all the way up to (((David Baltimore))).About the same time, Trump's nigger Surgeon General said "masks won't help" because the medical community wanted to reserve to themselves the very limited supply for a pandemic good N95 masks (going further back, Obama didn't replenish the stockpiles after the swine flu pandemic). Saint Fauci later publicly admitted this was a lie and why.A whole lot of "rules are thee, not me," including politicians. Not sure how to interpret all those cases, a few people breaking the isolation rules won't affect the total attack rates and demand on the hospital system.Some extreme "fascism" from people like Cuomo who also obviously used the pandemic as a Final Solution to the Medicaid problem which had blown up his budget in the fall of 2019. Also rules so nasty precious doses of vaccines were thrown away instead of the usual protocol of finding anyone who wanted one to finish out a vial's contents.Lower down, "Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." thus the "outdoor protests against racism are OK" trope, because racism is obviously worse than millions of people dying.
Extending that, totalitarian Blue states made a big point about curbing obviously low risk outdoor activities, all the way to gardening for Michigan and Vermont. But it was the arrests of lone surfers, filling a skateboard park with sand etc. that I think really got people's attention.
Trump also horribly screwed up the messaging about "two weeks to bend the curve" from what the public health people were saying (watch the video). This had to be a long term effort to limit demand for isolation hospital beds with high flow oxygen so we'd not lose people from just this basic level of care (see India's single wave for comparison). Such a failure happened in my corner of deep Red State America when complacency ran into the brick wall of the Delta variant.
Before that, there was too much "this isn't a problem, yet" messaging.
Trump also showed everyone he was a pathological narcissist by incessantly harping on his entirely useless because it was partial freeze on some people coming to the US from China. Especially after the reversal on masks (legit to bend the curve) it was obvious our ruling trash was a Clown Show.
That's before we even get into telling details about how the FDA used CDC ineptitude to make sure no one knew how prevalent COVID was until sometime in April. Also we who had watched CDC botch for example the big Ebola outbreak saw more of the same in general.
And this drove too much of the Right stark raving mad and brought out too many people's selfish sociopathy, but that's another topic, albeit based on much of the above sort of things.