27 December 2020 - no evidence

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2020 : 27 December 2020

Communication Style

worrier: What if the virus attracts poisonous snakes?
official answer: There is no evidence of that.
what nobody thinks to say: We haven’t seen that at all, but we’ll keep an eye out just in case.
worrier: But what if I don’t listen because of all your empty non-denials?

clue:

Take responsibility for what you say. Not “for public relations purposes, absence of evidence is plenty of evidence.”

give me a clue so sweet and true