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Covid was not serious enough to trigger self-defence. Therefore, politics and economics overruled health. That or basic heartlessness.
by jleyank 5y ago
Covid was not serious enough to trigger self-defence. Therefore, politics and economics overruled health. That or basic heartlessness.
- shankr 5y agoI just found the video itself quite high-quality. Even though it affirms lot of what we already know but in a more researched nuanced way. Also let's see how long it lasts here before getting flagged.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThe potholer54 channel on YouTube has a lot of content by a conservative science journalist, trying to get through to more science skeptical conservatives. He has a playlist on COVID. I watched more of his climate related stuff, but that was really good in terms of looking at the reality of things, reading citations on papers and such: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoWneZjR0wiidhGkAMOeIYAS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoWneZjR0wiidhGk... The final video in particular, titled "Do you get it now? Why scientific reality doesn't care about your politics" is a good summary.
- civilized 5y agoI think this is right. It can also be put in terms of near/far thinking systems [1]. If something isn't serious enough to make you worry about yourself, it fails to trigger your near mode of cognition, which considers evidence in a more contextually sensitive way and allows for the possibility of deviations from your prior expectations. This leaves the entire topic to the far mode, which relies more on broad themes and trends and is more concerned with social image. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory