donovanian

> Knowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens".

I think it's possible the government practically can't reveal information about extraterrestrials, supernatural phenomenon, or really anything that's within the realm of incredible.

The reason being - there will be a potentially large amount of people that will not believe what the government reveals or that they're being honest about their revelations.

You only have to see something like QAnon or the Russiagate stuff to see that a large segment of people across the political spectrum creates vast narratives founded in distrust of whatever is relatively credible and apparent.

So if the government were to say "we're aware of phenomenon that we cannot explain and it seems to be characteristic of some form of intelligence," you'd have many who would start arguing that the government is colluding with aliens or something. It could be destabilizing to society.

> Don't people have the right to be informed?

Fauci has been leading with every indication he's willing to speak lies if it makes people fall in line with his policy objectives.

> those who could help the most

Wouldn't complete confiscation of the wealth of billionaires finance something like Medicare for All for around 3 years?

I don't think people understand how utopian and ultimately ill-conceived their plans are.

Maybe one-size-fits-all "guidance" is net harmful, and local knowledge and individual risk evaluation has outperformed the supposed advice, efforts and mandates of so-called experts.

You’re totally right. It’s strange to see random self-righteous, presumably highly-educated, safety-minded people suggest that the US should just be New Zealand. There’s been some really wildly unworkable things offered as though it’s just obviously correct.

The only failure we have to grapple with are all the people who demand any action in an emergency.

The most damaging force in a chaotic situation like a terrorist attack, financial crisis or natural disaster are those who scream "you must act now, do anything!"

Look at the demand for ventilators - it's likely that the people demanding them cost people their lives.

It's often that governments will act in ways that are much worse than had nothing been done at all, and at least in the context of something as complex and varied as a pandemic - local knowledge generally has vastly outperformed the one-size-fits-all mandates from the federal government.

Fauci is a mess honestly. He's been all over the map and revealed he's in the business of noble lies in the interest of policy objectives - which only backfires and erodes public trust.

Were the establishment smart, they'd have no problem with vaccination hesitancy by saying that after vaccination you can resume normal life and ditch the masks. Instead it's been the outrageous message of "nothing will change."

You only have to see how the establishment has handled the obesity epidemic in the US to see whether any of their supposed intelligence and expertise accomplishes anything.