A Unusual Unity of Confusion
A little unity – good news! But not really unity, rather a meeting of the dissatisfied. Sounds like Festivus. And strange bedfellows indeed. Because everyone is confused, frustrated and wondering what is right, uh left, uh right, regardless of politics. We have readers from across the spectrum, pardon the sentence. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, international readers with their own political orientation. And everyone is welcome. The fact is, on Jan 12, 2022, the news got so messed up that it is useless. We are treated like mice in a maze and the cheese moves quickly.
That article was in Apple News, on the Washington Post (mine, I wonder if Apple News is going to keep AofA running?) Because the economy hates uncertainty and has that little something to complain about. Health and science are not.
Which mask? Which test? The recent surge in Covid is spreading an epidemic of confusion.
Tiffany Li wants to trust the government’s guidelines on coronavirus, but the news is so confusing now that she has stepped up her precautionary measures and often visits friends with masks only outdoors – in New Hampshire in January.
In Houston, Mark Thiessen was busy with vaccinations last year, but now, with all the conflicting information about when and if to be tested, he’s avoiding pandemic news entirely. When three members of his family caught a cold over the Christmas vacation, they didn’t bother to get tested or quarantined.
As Americans venture into a third winter of viral discontent, this season has brought something else: amid the deep polarization over masks and vaccines, amid disagreement over whether and how to return to pre-pandemic life, a strange unit of confusion emerges . a general inability to decipher conflicting advice and guidelines from government, academia, health, the media, and other institutions. Read more at:
Which mask? Which test? The recent surge in Covid is spreading an epidemic of confusion..
