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If "trusting the government" is the reason you are taking a vaccine, you don't know enough about history, current events, or medicine. Any government, as a whol

If "trusting the government" is the reason you are taking a vaccine, you don't know enough about history, current events, or medicine. Any government, as a whole, is stupid and slow. But even stupid institutions can get things right when they are obvious enough. When they do, it doesn't mean you should start trusting them. Simple understandings of biology and medicine should inform you that taking a vaccine to the worst pandemic in living memory is the right course of action.

bamboozled 5y ago
So I’m just supposed to “make assumptions” and “hunches” to workout if I should take medicine ? I really don’t know why I’m paying taxes half the time.
- craftinator 5y ago
  As far as I'm concerned, no one is supposed to do anything. You do what you decide is best. Hunches and assumptions sound like a bad way to decide on such an important course of action. Instead, if I were you, I'd do a combination of research and choosing someone to listen to that you think is both trustworthy and has spent a long time learning about vaccines. Maybe someone who's got a PhD in molecular biology and has written extensively on the subject. Do your own research, and trust that person to understand the things that would take too long for you to learn, then make your choice. I would never let the government do my thinking for me, for free or for pay. They aren't good at it.
  - bamboozled 5y ago
    It's interesting to think that people can be created in 2021. Faces, voices, videos can all be generated. If you're not in the field, it's pretty hard to know who to trust or what is real.
    - craftinator 5y ago
      Yes, false media can be generated, much like 100 years ago when you could sign a fake signature or misquote someone in a newspaper. No idea is new, just new applications of the idea. Luckily, we all have brains, and can use them to understand things from first principles. Listening to other people thoughts about what you should be doing is generally stupid. They aren't you, and they have themselves to look after. Also, no freaking idea why you tangented from vaccines, to taxes, to fake media generation, but unless you pick a topic we are done here.
    - craftinator 5y ago
      Okay, so looking at your other posts, seems like you really love conspiracy theories and tying together any random coincidence you can without evidence. Not going to engage you in conversation again.
tomp 5y ago
> taking a vaccine to the worst pandemic in living memory is the right course of action I’m not sure this is a reasonable strategy. 2 years ago, the “worst pandemic in living memory” was some annual flu. Did you take the vaccine against that?

bamboozled 5y ago

So I’m just supposed to “make assumptions” and “hunches” to workout if I should take medicine ? I really don’t know why I’m paying taxes half the time.

craftinator 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned, no one is supposed to do anything. You do what you decide is best. Hunches and assumptions sound like a bad way to decide on such an important course of action. Instead, if I were you, I'd do a combination of research and choosing someone to listen to that you think is both trustworthy and has spent a long time learning about vaccines. Maybe someone who's got a PhD in molecular biology and has written extensively on the subject. Do your own research, and trust that person to understand the things that would take too long for you to learn, then make your choice. I would never let the government do my thinking for me, for free or for pay. They aren't good at it.
- bamboozled 5y ago
  It's interesting to think that people can be created in 2021. Faces, voices, videos can all be generated. If you're not in the field, it's pretty hard to know who to trust or what is real.
  - craftinator 5y ago
    Yes, false media can be generated, much like 100 years ago when you could sign a fake signature or misquote someone in a newspaper. No idea is new, just new applications of the idea. Luckily, we all have brains, and can use them to understand things from first principles. Listening to other people thoughts about what you should be doing is generally stupid. They aren't you, and they have themselves to look after. Also, no freaking idea why you tangented from vaccines, to taxes, to fake media generation, but unless you pick a topic we are done here.
  - craftinator 5y ago
    Okay, so looking at your other posts, seems like you really love conspiracy theories and tying together any random coincidence you can without evidence. Not going to engage you in conversation again.

tomp 5y ago

> taking a vaccine to the worst pandemic in living memory is the right course of action I’m not sure this is a reasonable strategy. 2 years ago, the “worst pandemic in living memory” was some annual flu. Did you take the vaccine against that?