Plans you're not supposed to talk about
Like discovering the ancient concept of &#x27;Public Communications&#x27; by accidental recourse of self aware rhetoric.<p>Every single thing we do, if the public were to have access to the raw facts, it would cause &#x27;outrage&#x27;. The entirely of leadership is putting the difficult facts into the difficult context and making the trade offs.<p>We &#x27;don&#x27;t talk about&#x27; the fact that we don&#x27;t give medical aid to COVID patients past a certain point because we have to put a dollar figure on it (i.e. triage), similarly the fact we have $1200 &#x27;solutions&#x27; to COVID that could probably wipe it out without vaccines if we could get everyone the tech, but we can&#x27;t &#x27;afford&#x27; it, or that masks do not protect you like wearing a gas mask through a chlorine cloud, rather, they&#x27;re minimally protective but nevertheless we believe &#x27;do make  difference&#x27; and we want people to wear them, so we don&#x27;t talk about it in detail, rather, just suggest or require them as policy in some locales.<p>Because people make decisions based on the emotive strength of the rhetorician, the magnitude of impressions, emotions, group consensus, &#x27;opposition&#x27;, politics, their instinct for the validity of the source ... and not conscientious and dispassionate civic reasoning ... we worry about what is said on &#x27;mass media&#x27;. People will do largely what their favourite &#x27;talking head&#x27; say to do ... so we have to be careful about what &#x27;talking heads&#x27; say, at least in some situations.