Subj : Re: Testing the waters
To   : Boraxman
From : MRO
Date : Sat Dec 03 2022 05:13 am

  Re: Re: Testing the waters
  By: Boraxman to Spaul on Sat Dec 03 2022 07:41 pm

 > I dont have much to say on the pandemic itself, but it showed me that people
 > who are supposedly educated and class themselves as the bastions of
 > rationality dropped critical thinking in order to score points.  Things
 > quickly turned into a political crapfest where one side wanted to prove the
 > other was science-denying right-wing conspiracy theorists.  In order to do
 > that, they claimed that they represented "science", and believed that the
 > mainstream narrative was indeed based on the best science there was.  In
 > order to take this position, people refused to look that perhaps state
 > actors were using this as an opportunity to control the population, that
 > perhaps Big Pharma might put money over safety and efficacy.  People lost
 > any sense of scepticism so they could portray themselves as being with the
 > 'narrative', which was seen as science and progress.
 >
 > I'm not going to comment on the vaccines specifically, but I think other
 > social motives took root, and bad information was flowing over all facets of
 > any debate and discussion.
 >


we had people saying 'trust the science' ,etc etc  when they weren't reading the science.  and it was hard to keep up because it was changing every month.

"don't need a mask" "wear a mask" "don't wear a mask" "Wear a mask indoors by yourself" j/k

"you will die if you don't get the vaccine.  if you get the vaccine you will never get covid. "

I don't trust the science anymore. everything became political and I dont trust anything.
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