They aren't perfect (you know, being humans and all), and can sometimes be slow in disseminating information to the public, but you're out to lunch if you think they "don't really know" anything.
Your comments reads overly defensive to me.
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>It's funny that you use the term "actual" to describe the guidance from the US government. They don't really know what they are talking about.
Perhaps you can understand why I thought you were speaking generally, when your comment is written generally. I can't read minds to figure out what your silently scoping your comment to.
But if saying I laughed and why I laughed is overly defensive, my apologies. I'm not sure how else I would tell someone I find their comment funny.
In a similar vein, a fairly mid-level dev was recently trying to convince me that "Rob Pike is a clueless idiot who knows nothing about language design".
And fwiw, Rob Pike definitely did make mistakes. Golang is a great language, but it's not perfect.
My general point is that there a lot of people who see the world in binary - genius or idiot, perfect or incompetent.