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YLE has some useful stocktaking here:

Covid-19 six years later Katelyn Jetelina

But I had to comment: Re: trust in government and trust in health authorities at an all-time low:

My hypothesis that trust in EVERYTHING is at an all-time low.

Trust in the ability of puppies and kittens to cheer us up? Likely quite low. Trust that my children will have a reliable society in which to grow up? Low. Trust the overwhelming belief that AI will be good for the economy? Low.

So I don't think the data you have is wrong, it's just too narrow. What I'd like to know is: how does the data for which you have graphs compare to other areas where trust has eroded? Has trust in health authorities kept pace with societal trust? Maybe it's doing better than societal trust.

Possibly that broader data exist out there somewhere.

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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.