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The White House Covid page is fascinating to me on many levels.
The most obvious is the degree in which it is a blatant limited hangout. (Imagine if something like this was published about 9/11 in 2005)

I've noticed a problem in politics/activism these days where instead of trying to do the meaningful work of actually "winning hearts and minds" the goal seems to be to simply secure enough power to tell others what they need to think. This is what makes this particular example stand out to me.

Is anyone going to change their mind because the Trump administration put out a new web page? Is that really going to change anything in the grand scheme of things? If anything I can see how it would discredit genuine and important lines of questioning that were omitted by the release.

But there's a reasonable counter-argument. The government is always going to have some statement or another on a particular topic, and so it makes sense to at least try to make sure it represents something approaching the truth. If we don't participate in that negotiation, the state stance will represent the interests of those who do put that work in.