"Miracles" (The Dunning-Kruger Song)

Insane Clown Posse

Bang! Pow! Boom! (2009)

Psychopathic

This, to me, is the ultimate harm wreaked on the public by social media in general and Youtube in particular: prior to "any joker with a phone is an expert" there were actual experts. They could be enticed to share their expertise through vetted channels, supported by the Fairness Doctrine, to enrich and improve the intellectual development of the populace. The minute it became "who looks like a scientist" instead of "who is a scientist", however, the narrative went from

"I don't understand it but someone does"

to

"I don't understand it therefore no one does"

You can read in a book how magnets work. You can write it as a haiku:

Forces related

Electrical, physical

Not magic, science

But unless you are willing to accept the possibility of expertise into your life, the world shall remain a terrifying void of superstition and supposition.

This is the key problem the CDC has: they were the acknowledged experts, and they squandered that expertise. Team Trump knew this: in a world without experts, anything they said could be true. In the immortal words of Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" so the more the fascists can dissolve reality, the stronger their standing.

Stop the steal, bitch.