Quote Originally Posted by WS6 View Post
It's ivory tower syndrome. People who are heading these organizations are so divorced from working with actual PEOPLE that they think "I have presented the data, now they will make the logical choice!" and when that obviously doesn't happen, they completely melt down. Because they don't know how the human animal works. Then it gets all sideways just like we saw.
Partly that no doubt, but far worse then that is it applies to covid and their responses in general in my view as condensed above. They allowed themselves to be politicized and weaponized for the pissing match with the orange guy, and we were caught in the middle.

Also as I said from day one: When the smoke finally clears, there will be a lot of finger pointing and most of them will be right.