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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What is the thesis of this meme, that people are just stupid and there is no underlying problem or system that can be improved?

Science is often communicated to the public via either companies, politics, or the media. Which al have their own interests and issues in representing “scientific facts”. To give some examples of the “science” people have been exposed to: These new pain killers are perfectly save and absolutely not addictive. Making health care accessible is actually bad for the economy and will be more expensive in the end. Or the numerous articles on outlier papers published in the media that conclude that it’s actually healthy to [insert obviously unhealthy habit here (sponsored by some industry group)].

Science has a communication problem, and the communication conduits have a huge credibility problem. The results of which made an already bad pandemic even worse.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Fauci is to blame. The path of evil is paved in good intention.

The fucker told everyone that they didn't need masks.

What he was intending to do was make sure doctors and emergency personnel had masks. instead, it became an inflection point or publicly dividing the nation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (21 children)

Let’s be real, the misinfosphere would’ve have found something else to misguide the morons. He didn’t even say “you don’t need masks”, he said “don’t buy all the masks, stay inside”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Well, then there was the intent to let it run its course, as it was only hitting blue states at that time… it was a bit of a cluster…

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (7 children)

You're assuming these people believe we even send things to space. I had a serious ass conversation recently with my father's roommate. Typical conspiracy theorist ding dong. Full on flat earther and everything. I asked him how he thinks GPS works if the earth was flat. He admitted he didn't know but then when I started to explain how it works by pinging satellites we put up in space he cut me off and said space isn't real. Like legitimately thinks space isn't real. He on a separate occasion also complained that we didn't need to wear masks during covid because we apparently make our own viruses in our bodies and viruses don't spread between people.

These people don't even understand how logic works. Let alone that people could be smarter than they are.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lot of over lap with anti-maskers and young earth flat earthers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well you have to let the virus out if you want to get rid of it. Why do you think there's that saying about having to pass a cold along?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Big Cold is just a dolled-up ponzi scheme, I tells ya

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (11 children)

And yet social distancing was "obvious" because scientists said it u til they admitted they pretty much just made that distance up.

That's why there's an Appeal from Authority fallacy... But you just keep on trusting what ever they say with out questioning it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread based on similar viruses. Until they had more verifiable ways it was a quick and cheap answer to a complex problem. Sometimes those are necessary, especially when millions of lives are on the line.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You do realize that social distancing does have a body of work around it and was used to mitigate the 1918 pandemic...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

So you don't think masks work?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It probably didn't help that at the beginning they said the cloth didn't help, then changed the messaging later on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The messaging could have been clearer but I'll spell it out for the dumb.

Phase 1:

Don't panic buy medical supplies expecting them to protect you. We don't have enough, and frontline healthcare workers need them to protect themselves and others, you don't know how to wear them and they probably don't fit you properly.

Phase 2:

We still don't really have enough medical grade masks but just fyi: any sort of mouth covering will reduce the risk of a contagious person sneezing into the mouth of a vulnerable person. If you have to go out, please wear something over your face. Cotton is better than nothing.

Phase 3:

A tight fitting mask really is best, it limits a contagious person's generation of aerosolized clouds of viruses, and limits a vulnerable person's exposure to clouds of aerosolized viruses.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

IIRC, that initial “don’t use surgical masks” statement was because hospitals were already facing shortages, and a rush on the supply would have caused massive widespread longstanding shortages. Basically, the hospitals needed disposable masks, so the CDC told people not to use disposable masks.

But it was also in that brief time period between surgical masks and reusable cloth masks. So the messaging was basically just “don’t use ~~disposable~~ masks” because the “disposable” part was implied because it’s all that was commonly available on the market. Plus cloth masks hadn’t been studied yet. So when cloth masks were proven to work and the CDC started recommending them, the naysayers fell back to that initial messaging from when the cloth masks were unavailable and unproven.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Poindexter... not hard slang to get correct. Dumbasses.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Fuck of Pondexter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (8 children)

But surely you must understand how someone, having failed all of their classes and then dropped out of school altogether, understands complex matters better than the people who are brilliant, have international acclaim, and devoted like 5 decades of their lives to study that same thing?

Or you know, at least watched this 11-minute video?

And if you do, can you explain it to me? :-P So far all I have is "Might Makes Right", but somehow that seems to be lacking something...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They failed because they’re obviously smarter than science and not the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Also, are we not going to discuss the conspiracy theory that many of the people espousing this ideology were mysteriously killed!? And their families too! In fact, anyone even so much as near them had a chance to be affected, possibly some still here but with permanent brain damage!

Sounds pretty sus if you ask me...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The oligarchs have not decided that Mars can be made into a culture war issue.... yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

They are on their way with how Musk and the other Silicon Valley idiots are going

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean a lot of them also don't believe we landed unmanned units on mars, or humans on the moon, for that matter, so...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's funny, I've heard plenty of morons talk about flat earth, but I've never seen anyone say anything about Mars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Some of those dumb fucks think that it's just Earth that's flat, but other planets are round – probably because it's so bleeding obvious they are when you look at them through a telescope. Somehow that logic doesn't apply to the Earth though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Mars is obviously a star, since it is in the sky and glows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Don't give them any ideas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Step on Mars but not on snek.

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