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>>codech+(OP)
This is why people say "do your own research". Because trusting some other authority will end badly, just like this.

>>genera+Ca
> "do your own research"

How? I barely have enough time to do my day job. You think I have the time or expertise to research the origins of a virus?

Where does it end? Do I grow my own food? Make my own clothes? Build my own car after mining ore, smelting it and doing a million other things?

>>tricer+rf
The more important takeaway is don't shout down those who are skeptical if you haven't actually investigated the authorities' credibility yourself. Get comfortable with not knowing, with being agnostic on a lot of issues, because it's often the only reasonable position.

(The most important takeaway is to ignore Twitter - not "social media", but specifically Twitter).

>>lmm+Dm
All fair points. But again I question the part where you said "if you haven't actually investigated the authorities' credibility yourself". How would I, a person with no training in virology, do that?

At some point, you have to trust someone or some institution or organization or system.

>>tricer+Iq
> But again I question the part where you said "if you haven't actually investigated the authorities' credibility yourself". How would I, a person with no training in virology, do that?

My point is that maybe you shouldn't stick your oar in in that case. The polarisation was exacerbated by a lot of non-experts who not just trusted the WHO (reasonable in itself) but felt the need to pile on anyone who was questioning them.

>>lmm+Zr
I agree.