This was the most important flip, everything else COULD be argued as "we learned more" which I'm 100% fine with, knowledge that you could be wrong should make you hesitant to inflict suffering in the name of the greater good, but NOT doing that is a failure, not a conspiracy.
The mask flip isn't that. When they flipped, their claim was that they KNEW masks worked, but lied because they needed to manage supply. Which again, as a game theory question, that's a reasonable line to take.
But what it means is, "we will lie to you about the choices you make for your personal health to protect the whole. If we believing lying to you so that you harm yourself will protect n+1 people we will do it"
And again, fine. Perfectly reasonable. But you have destroyed entirely your moral position to demand i listen to you without question. Either masks work or they do not. Whether they lied the first time or the second time doesn't matter, because AT BEST their highest moral claim is that they lied for good reasons.
Fine, but that means I have to make my own choices.
This was the most important flip, everything else COULD be argued as "we learned more" which I'm 100% fine with, knowledge that you could be wrong should make you hesitant to inflict suffering in the name of the greater good, but NOT doing that is a failure, not a conspiracy.
The mask flip isn't that. When they flipped, their claim was that they KNEW masks worked, but lied because they needed to manage supply. Which again, as a game theory question, that's a reasonable line to take.
But what it means is, "we will lie to you about the choices you make for your personal health to protect the whole. If we believing lying to you so that you harm yourself will protect n+1 people we will do it"
And again, fine. Perfectly reasonable. But you have destroyed entirely your moral position to demand i listen to you without question. Either masks work or they do not. Whether they lied the first time or the second time doesn't matter, because AT BEST their highest moral claim is that they lied for good reasons.
Fine, but that means I have to make my own choices.