This is getting voted down, I bthink because of the texture of the comment, but put another way I got upvoted recently for the same sentiment, so I'll echo it. We were told masks didn't work, so we wouldn't buy too many and short the people who needed them most, so people kept believing it after the well meant lie. We were told it wasn't a pandemic and that we could still stop it, so that people would continue the practices that would ease the burden on our nurses. The severity of the flu has been exaggerated (on average, there have been really bad years) so that people would get vaccines even if it might not be that important for them individually. If you manage the truth, you havebto keep doing it more and more. If you treat your citizenship like children, you'll get childish behavior. You can't wait for people to behave responsibly to give them responsibility, it works the other way around. Responsibility and accountability produce responsible behavior. As things stand, people expect that if something wasn't safe to eat it wouldn't be legal to sell it...