No, because they were right and the epidemiologists and medical people were wrong. Everyone kept telling us not to use masks except the tech people. There were all these lies:
* Doesn't work
* Too hard to train
* Shortages will happen
Literally all were wrong and they either knew it and misinformed everyone or didn't know it. So you can either drop the assumption of benevolence or competence.
The only guys who didn't listen to them, Taiwan, are doing fine despite every other risk factor being huge for them. It turns out some skills translate across domains. I'm not going to get a software engineer to perform a total knee replacement on me, but I think I'll listen to them on the crisis management: turns out they're better at it than the crisis managers.
* Doesn't work
* Too hard to train
* Shortages will happen
Literally all were wrong and they either knew it and misinformed everyone or didn't know it. So you can either drop the assumption of benevolence or competence.
The only guys who didn't listen to them, Taiwan, are doing fine despite every other risk factor being huge for them. It turns out some skills translate across domains. I'm not going to get a software engineer to perform a total knee replacement on me, but I think I'll listen to them on the crisis management: turns out they're better at it than the crisis managers.