Covid stuff as an example.
We don't even have accurate testing 3 years in, but we are super sure that the numbers we've collected are close enough. You also have people completely convinced the virus never existed at all. The same statistics can be used to support either position.
The virus and the vaccines were both introduced to the population within a very short timeframe, but depending on where you review your data either covid is harmless or it's AIDS, and the vaccine is either safe and effective or it's the clot shot. Everyone on all sides is confident they are right.
Nuance is vital. Then again, use logical fact: a real epidemic leaves behind heaps of bodies across the board. We did not see that.
New products, especially new technologies, are prone to a higher rate of error. We would expect more casualties than from the average vaccine, and vaccination casualties are never zero.
At this point, COVID has just about become a political loyalty test like everything else.
Worried about COVID, in favor of transgender special rights, pro-Ukraine, want abortion, talk about Blacks constantly = Leftist.
@thatguyoverthere
We are truly living in the era of post-truth: facts are nothing if they don't fit the political agenda, if there are no facts to reinforce your point of view — you are free to cherry pick them or even outright make them up.
Rule of thumb here is to not trust something only because it aligns well with your worldview, question even that, and if it doesn't — integrate it into your worldview by expanding it, do not try to dismiss it.
@amerika
@thatguyoverthere @amerika
Same, I've had a very bad feeling about it. I remember, it was a week before the New Year and a friend of mine asks me if he could borrow a mic and a keyboard stand, my ex had been using them so I go to her to fetch the gear, we spend the evening talking about that, I tell her that this is going to be big, she doesn't believe me of course, then I go to the friend's place and we sit in the kitchen drinking tea, I've been telling him about the virus too and he was:
— Oh, come on, it that Swine Flu shit again!
— No, it's hardly "swine flu shit", this looks serious — the whole city was isolated
— I have a friend in China, he told me everything's fine
After the holidays I did this and that, went to the cinema to see all the movies I had been planning to see — I knew, they would be locked down, spent like whole day at the cinema — it was matinee, so dirt cheap. And then, a few weeks later, all hell broke loose!
In a couple of months I asked him about friend from China: "He's no longer responding to my emails, that's odd" 😂
The mistake we all made: relying on authorities, both public and private, assuming that they were acting on scientific knowledge.
It turns out that if you drop bad data somewhere in the system in a panic, everyone seizes on it as their chance to either (a) get in good with government or (b) sell products to the credulous normies.
So it was all crap.
In the long calculus, some people are at risk from #COVID19 because of genetic factors.
Our society fears genetics and natural selection because they disprove equality, equity, socialism, pacifism, utilitarianism, and all the other stuff that comes from herd rule.
These tards cannot even agree that social classes, races, and ethnic groups are genetically different.
That makes them liars, and one should not tolerate liars. Ideally liars should be euthanized.
But back to the reality, as @jeffcliff has pointed out, some people get hit hard by #COVID19.
This is true of every new flu. It carries off some who are susceptible to its method of attack.
It was used advantageously as a political panic to steal an election however; it justified the millions of mail-in ballots that anomalously decided the election.
@m0xee @thatguyoverthere @jeffcliff
At first, I trusted the authorities. I do not want to be the source of misery to others.
Once the scam was clear, I started saying "let's genetically test people to figure out the people with those 19 loci that make this dangerous, and leave everyone else tf alone."
A lot of my life philosophy is leaving people alone alone unless there is a need to bother them. Let nature sort humanity out; it's better at it than we are.
@thatguyoverthere
I have to admit, I must've overestimated COVID, but only because a lot of people around me kept underestimating it, they took more relaxed stance using every opportunity — they just wanted it to be over really bad.
And that is my weakness: I always asses poorly how people take information, you thing that something is going to be a game changer, but most people — they are like that tilt-doll, they return to their old ways almost immediately 🤷
@amerika