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I guess that depends - what do the "trust the experts" crowd do when faced with dueling "experts"? Is the layperson an expert in expert-choosing, or do we need a second layer of experts for that?

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Choose whichever "experts" agree with your own personal beliefs and ridicule the rest.

This case is simple for me: I'll always follow EU/Canadian healthcare guidelines before US ones by a very long shot, unless there is an immediate problem in my local community where the US guidelines make more sense.

>unless there is an immediate problem in my local community where the US guidelines make more sense.

This isn't simple at all then. You are following one set guidelines unless you see "a problem", then you follow another set. What makes you think you can identify the problems?

The government publishes infection rates at the county level. The county's health department may also have guidelines that differ slightly from the general nation-wide ones. If there is an uptick of infections in the local community and the boosters are recommended there (though still not necessarily at the macroscopic level), then that seems pretty clear to me.

But I still concur with OP. I am not an expert, and I don't know how to choose between experts with differing opinions. What I do know is that I trust certain institutions more than others.

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