On Wednesday morning, after we found out about the #Covid case, I met with my supervisor in her office. I relayed my concerns re: #CovidIsNotOver and 5 day isolation/stay home reqs for staff & students.

You can imagine how it went. Lots of incorrect/outdated talking points from her, gentle (but firm) retorts from me, trying to convey the gravity of it all.

I realized: this is what the avg American thinks about the pandemic bc of #MSM’s inaccurate, harmful #SarsCoV2 takes.

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@novid I don’t think I truly understood before this past week: the regular, everyday people who are implementing #Covid precautions/mandates in their workplaces are so misinformed it’s laughable.

They are only following the policy/guidance that they feel is necessary, and this seems to be done in good faith. They don’t know anything except for what the TV news tells them.

BUT it’s too late in the game to be allowing even reg people to skate by with the defense of “not knowing.”

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Sadly, out of all of the scientists I know about 90% of them just regurgitate old or outright wrong information about COVID when asked, too. I went through something similar with a friend last year. He has an advanced microbiology degree and runs a pretty large company on the west coast. He originally set up COVID precautions for everyone in 2020, but dropped them at the beginning this year(over my vehement protests and I don't even work there!). If you ask him now he'll say he was wrong to ever implement any precautions and COVID was never anything to worry about. He rails on about school closings and whatnot regularly now.

I'm afraid it's really too late in the game to change minds at this point. The idea that COVID was either nothing to begin with, or has been defeated, is pervasive across society irregardless of whether they "should know better" or not.

Hopefully your supervisor takes the time to read and think it all through!

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