I'm aware construction workers don't get PhDs.

Some people are exposed to certain things from early childhood and others aren't. Some people have a rich ecosystem of pertinent experiences and are surrounded by knowledgeable people and others don't have those assets.

People who have no friends or relatives who know anything about X real world physical skill and are googling up info online are often poorly positioned to judge the quality of the info in question.

To me, it seems to be a simple and obvious point. I don't know why it seems to be failing to click with you.

Ironically, that's perhaps an example of the kind of disconnect I am trying to describe, though that fact seems unlikely to help me make my case.

I don't actually know and I am likely suffering from tunnel vision because I have a very serious medical condition with a respiratory component and I have long managed it with diet and lifestyle and was able to transition to that in part via displacing harsh prescription drugs with gentler prescription drugs and eventually OTC drugs and then getting off drugs entirely.

It's routinely ridiculous levels of drama for me to try to talk about medical topics no matter how carefully I word things. It makes sense to me that the government or some official source should use the internet to inform people on what they can do to mitigate things but from where I sit that appears to not be happening.

In the book The Hot Zone, it was local African tribes who stopped the ebola epidemic and one of their practices was to tell people "Do not go to the White man's hospital." because you would go in with something treatable, like a broken leg, and die of ebola. And it had like a 90 percent death rate.

I've tried to judiciously share things I know are helpful. I was attacked and accused of trying to practice medicine without a license. I've tried to blog. Most of my blog posts get around 25 page views if I don't personally post them to HN and I do not post any of my health writing to HN.

I'm me and that's routinely drama for reasons I often find baffling. It seems logical and obvious to me that putting useful information on the internet from official sources to help empower people to engage in self care of some kind and give them a viable alternative to seeing a physician would be an excellent thing to do when trying to mitigate a global pandemic.

The world mostly seems to think I'm a loon and not worth listening to. So you don't really need to hold your breath and worry about my personal opinions.

I'm on HN because I'm medically handicapped, I'm too screwed up to do anything more productive and I'm just trying to distract myself from the misery that is my life and my terror that I will die on the streets in the near future.

No one is required to care one bit about what I think and most people don't.

Have a good day.