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> medicine has not fully embraced the scientific method but some strange "evidence-based" variant.

Why would you not want to follow a conservative, evidence-based variant of the scientific method?

> During the early stages of the pandemic, high ranking officials suggested we should not use masks because it was not yet "proven" the virus was transmitted via aerosols. And this was a catastrophic decision.

And the current administration continues to employ this official and give them a microphone

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Because apparently they are too dumb to evaluate low risk-low cost interventions like wearing a mask in a different way from high risk-high cost interventions like taking a new drug.

What happens when different people perceive the cost of these measures differently though?

That's half the problem here, with anti-maskers screaming that they can't breathe.

You can try forcing them, like we're doing now, and they'll just take off their mask to cough and sneeze like half the passengers in my last flight + take every possible option to take it off + wear it off their nose to begin with.