Your response is the perfect example why I no longer try to discuss this topic with any covid-response-enthusiasts. You're, obviously, entitled to your beliefs, and must consider them well-backed by your knowledge, life experiences and values. Just as six-days creationists are entitled to theirs. I do not judge either. But this response is so typical that I'll use it to point most problematic issues.
First, it contains a brisk, insulting, dismissive and unfalsifiable claim involving modern slur. This is in response to the GP post, where the author went to the pains of writing long-form in a very polite way.
Second, it professes the trust to mainstream media, which seems infallible to the poster. All while crapping en passe on "others" that they do not like. Sometimes it also contains accolades to bureaucrats and/or scientists. Cherry-picked ones, of course.
And concluded with another unfalsifiable claim that "70-80% of those deaths could have been prevented with vaccines, masking, and observing proper protocols.", again implying that all "measures" must have been followed precisely, and anyone disagreeing is nothing short of murderer. While all the available data increasingly pointing to the opposite, that all the "proper protocols" did bugger all and caused more harm then good. Heck, even the latest study from the beloved doom merchants of John Hopkins University declares that "lockdowns in Europe and the United States reduced only COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average." Note the order of magnitude. No, not completely ineffective, right?
It is sad, sad state of things, and the fallout will be felt for decades, I think. I absolutely agree with GP post, that when the real challenge comes the society mobilization will be impossible, because the trust is completely broken. I know mine is.
Your response is also why I do bother to comment sometimes. I don't want people to see the your side without seeing the other side. I'm a skeptic by nature, that's why I trust scientists and not internet "facts" that have almost nothing to back them up other than alt-right qanon sources. I automatically dismiss those sources as a default. Conservative media prints 100 to 1 (at least) unsupported to supported facts as opposed to more traditional liberal/moderate sources. I can go to fox or breitbart on any given day and find dozens of pieces of outright misinformation on display between their news reports and opinion shows. It's ludicrous. The only right wing mag that I can think of who regularly does a decent job is Reason magazine. If you want to deny basic physics and medical knowledge that masks block viruses and reduce viral load then go ahead. I wish you all the best and have a nice life.
First, it contains a brisk, insulting, dismissive and unfalsifiable claim involving modern slur. This is in response to the GP post, where the author went to the pains of writing long-form in a very polite way.
Second, it professes the trust to mainstream media, which seems infallible to the poster. All while crapping en passe on "others" that they do not like. Sometimes it also contains accolades to bureaucrats and/or scientists. Cherry-picked ones, of course.
And concluded with another unfalsifiable claim that "70-80% of those deaths could have been prevented with vaccines, masking, and observing proper protocols.", again implying that all "measures" must have been followed precisely, and anyone disagreeing is nothing short of murderer. While all the available data increasingly pointing to the opposite, that all the "proper protocols" did bugger all and caused more harm then good. Heck, even the latest study from the beloved doom merchants of John Hopkins University declares that "lockdowns in Europe and the United States reduced only COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average." Note the order of magnitude. No, not completely ineffective, right?
It is sad, sad state of things, and the fallout will be felt for decades, I think. I absolutely agree with GP post, that when the real challenge comes the society mobilization will be impossible, because the trust is completely broken. I know mine is.