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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
It's a statement of consequences; just "the way the world works."

Trust the experts if you've no time for more, but this is the likely result.

Put time into your own research, and maybe you won't be caught off guard.

>>genera+zg
> Put time into your own research, and maybe you won't be caught off guard.

Why? What guarantees are there that I'll do a better job of research than the experts?

>>tricer+Ig
I don’t think anyone is suggesting you learn about virology and fly to wuhan and start looking around. Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven, while resisting political tribalism shrouding your view of the truth, is I suppose hard for many people to pull off. But that is what we’re suggesting you try to do, maybe next time we have a global pandemic…

>>timeli+Mo
> Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven

Why are you assuming my beliefs on this topic were set in stone previously?

>>tricer+Tp
I’m not, it’s clear you’re too lazy to even consider anything until it’s kicked down to you by the political machine

>>timeli+nu
In beginning and middle of pandemic energy is better spent on solving the crisis first. Truth is for mortals like a set of possibilities. Here media presented both possibilities and reported usual facts and opinions.

As we all know, media often gets thing wrong, as nobody are arbiters of Truth. So one reads it like that.

When president turned traitor, that was more damaging than this virus itself.