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Thinking about my own hotheaded reaction to the OP, and the dread I feel about the likely social impact of the CDC’s not unreasonable but kind of weak sauce policy, my thoughts keep coming back to how hard it is to live in a low-trust environment.

If I trusted the CDC to communicate well and be forceful in pursuit of public health…

If I trusted the press to communicate this to the public well…

If I trusted the incoming administration not to twist every weakly stated truth into an outright lie…

…but yeah, I don't. None of the above.