Hello Anonymous— I too deal often with PMC people. My family, for the most part, and most of my colleagues. Most of my friends, too. (I've been avoiding a lot of old friends... I don't know how many of these relationships are going to survive much longer.) So I am very familiar with their attitudes about experts. Many continue to read the NYT as an oracle of truth. With one exception that I am aware of, all have happily taken several covid jabs in 2021-2023.
I agree with you, that their narrow focus and information verifiction system is flawed. And those flaws have actually led to some of them getting themselves killed.
The biggest lesson for me in this whole covid catastrophe has been to trust my own judgement, and most especially, to trust my own intuition. Fortunately for me learning to trust my own judgement and my own intuition (and to know the difference) was a lesson I had already learned some years ago, so this was less a lesson really than a "refresher." I got through it very well; still, it's not like everything with me is hunkydory. I find this irrationality in the people around me continually disorienting. And, I would say, dispiriting. This forum has been a saving grace for me.
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I agree with you, that their narrow focus and information verifiction system is flawed. And those flaws have actually led to some of them getting themselves killed.
The biggest lesson for me in this whole covid catastrophe has been to trust my own judgement, and most especially, to trust my own intuition. Fortunately for me learning to trust my own judgement and my own intuition (and to know the difference) was a lesson I had already learned some years ago, so this was less a lesson really than a "refresher." I got through it very well; still, it's not like everything with me is hunkydory. I find this irrationality in the people around me continually disorienting. And, I would say, dispiriting. This forum has been a saving grace for me.
SDPM