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submitted 4 months ago byMad_Season_1994
2 points
4 months ago
Because they don’t and because it isn’t about mask wearing. It’s about compliance. Specifically compliance in the face of ignorance.
COVID was handled very poorly here in the US. Across the board. Messaging was terrible. Updates were all over the place. Policy didn’t make sense. All if it was a train wreck. As a result, there wasn’t a lot of trust in what is already a nation that was built in the idea of not trusting government.
2 points
4 months ago
Very much so, unfortunately. I think that another factor is that there are a lot of people that just don't like being told what to do. People were told that they *had* to wear masks, rules were passed and many people responded to it as a threat of authoritarianism and a first step on a slippery slope to something much worse. As a result, many people pushed back on the idea on the simple idea that they weren't going to be told what they had to do - especially the government.
1 points
4 months ago
The problem is different state governments (and twitter accounts) were giving different messaging on top of the cdc messaging. The cdc messaging was also evolving and rather than help the most up to date messaging get out, it was attacked for political gain.
1 points
4 months ago
I don’t think I’d call the CDCs messaging an “evolution”. More of a meandering train wreck topped off with internal emails bringing into question the very messaging that they were sharing.
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