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I think it was Dan Bongino who said that this remark about taking advice of “experts” would hurt Biden more than anything else.

I agree.

We’ve had it with these so-called experts out here in la-la land where we carry this country on our backs.

If Biden thinks his talk about obeying them will impress us....well he’s wrong.

We might listen to the experts, hear their thoughts, but we will not obey them.

My rule of thumb: Never take advice from an expert who has nothing to lose if he’s wrong.

My second rule of thumb is that I will never need a shutdown order from some government pr!ck who still collects a paycheck while he or she orders taxpaying citizens to close down their businesses.

We’ve had it with these so-called experts out here in la-la land where we carry this country on our backs.

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Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
—Robert A. Heinlein

As a scientist, who happened to spend some time as a nuclear submarine officer, I cringe every time I hear, "follow the science" or "the science is how we return to normal."

Scientists are good at uncovering the facts behind something (if they are not willfully blind). They can discover new things. They can sometimes invent new things, though as Burt Rutan used to say, he gets as many good ideas form the janitor sweeping the floor as from his PhDs.

The problem is that chanign society - innovation - is a multi-pronged thing. It is not just about new information, or new inventions. It is about changing culture and finding out why humans prefer solving a problem this way rather than that way. It's usually a strange choice of menu options that leads to the final solution, something "the science" doesn't tell you how to do.

Trump gets this and thus he has people working on solutions all over the country, public and private, and encourages the further exploration of anything that seems it might work. Scientists don't get that.

In short scientists don't make decisions to help organizations solve problems and move forward.

If Biden thinks his talk about obeying them will impress us....well he’s wrong.

this illustrates one of Biden's achilles heels: he's too stupid (or senile) to realize the Dem's are pro-shutdown now only too hurt Trump, not because the shutdown is popular or even the smart postition to take.