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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 8385768" data-attributes="member: 6803337">Persecutions and belittlings will accomplish nothing.  Doing what hasn't worked yet, only more of it and trying harder, is not going to change their minds to think maybe this time things will improve.What will help is a serious ego-busting change: fire the highly-credentialed but no-longer-credible leadership that brought us the existing "stop the spread" plan.  Acknowledge that "the experts have determined" is such a turn-off that a whole block of people don't listen or care.  From now on we have to think about 'what can people use at home, themselves, to deal with COVID?'Knock off "but this time it's different!", tell the CDC &c bureaucracy to find the plans that were used to successfully contain and defeat other contagious diseases; adapt those plans to current circumstances.  Shut down the One True Way-ism surrounding the vaccines.  Order research into existing medicines that treat viruses and their symptoms (like DayQuil and other 'fights flu-like symptoms' off-the-shelf purchases) to learn what they can do to help vs COVID.  Start development of the obvious use-at-home tools (like a reliable Coronavirus-19 detection kit) that let people find out what their condition is.  Ask other countries what they are doing that we haven't done and how it worked / didn't (India was using human-dose Ivermectin last year; did they stop, and if so why?).  Acknowledge that we might find dead-ends and things that only help for a while, and be willing to course-correct when necessary.  Accept data from the field in real time, knowing it will start off rough-draft and get better with experience, instead of waiting months for perfectly-conducted clinical studies to be published - and be permanently weeks or months behind the conditions people are living through now.In short, quit trying to prove Who's The Boss and get serious about doing Medicine.  We need a large toolbox full of techniques and methods and gear that gain public trust.  The best way to gain said trust is when people see "this is working"; then they will support The Plan instead of fighting (or ignoring) it.</blockquote>

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