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I think it was an awful lapse in judgment by Faucci.

1) Public health measures depend on the public trusting our public health experts.  Anything that undermines that trust, even for noble reasons, is bad.
2) Consistent messaging is important, and this undermines the consistency of messaging.
3) Opponents of vaccination will latch on to this as justification for their opposition.
4) It displays an appalling lack of respect for the public at large.
5) It was unnecessary.  As has been noted, there is a lot of uncertainty in the measures, so just acknowledging the uncertainty would have accomplished the same goal as lying about it.

You think he would have learned something from the controversies generated by the mixed messages around masking.

BC

[BostonCard]

I think it was an awful lapse in judgment by Faucci.

1) Public health measures depend on the public trusting our public health experts.  Anything that undermines that trust, even for noble reasons, is bad.
2) Consistent messaging is important, and this undermines the consistency of messaging.
3) Opponents of vaccination will latch on to this as justification for their opposition.
4) It displays an appalling lack of respect for the public at large.
5) It was unnecessary.  As has been noted, there is a lot of uncertainty in the measures, so just acknowledging the uncertainty would have accomplished the same goal as lying about it.

You think he would have learned something from the controversies generated by the mixed messages around masking.

BC