re: CDC Director: "A facemask is more guaranteed to protect me than a COVID vaccine"

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I wonder if most of us were always this dumb and the internet just magnifies it, or if we're willfully becoming more stupid by the day.

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It's not that people are dumb, as we're more educated as a population than we've been at times when we followed public health authorities more easily. There's more distrust of authorities and more counter-authorities for people to attach to. The internet is definitely a factor.