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As you grow older and wiser, remember that you said this: “Their direct experience means nothing to the actual reality.” This is how the enlightenment ends, i
by progrus 4y ago
As you grow older and wiser, remember that you said this:
“Their direct experience means nothing to the actual reality.”
This is how the enlightenment ends, in a nutshell. Over-confident denial of reality, supported by misleading statistics and buggy models.
“Since we’re awash in this contemporary ocean of speculation, we forget that things can be known with certainty, and that we need not live in a fearful world of interminable unsupported opinion. But the gulf that separates hard fact from speculation is by now so unfamiliar that most people can’t comprehend it.” — Michael Crichton
- maltalex 4y agoI’m glad that no one close to you died because of this disease. Other people’s experience is very different. Your anecdotal experience is not reality.
- mhoad 4y agoI think you will find they were saying that there were more than 6 million deaths from it globally so far and the fact that your personal experience with it wasn’t particularly serious isn’t a meaningful data point. I’d also argue that a random quote from the author of Jurassic Park isn’t really moving the conversation forward.
- someNameIG 4y ago> Over-confident denial of reality, supported by misleading statistics Sounds far far more like the people who think covid is nothing more than a cold.
- collyw 4y agoIt's less than that for people with so called asymptomatic infections. The vast majority of people have had covid my now, and it wasn't much worse than a cold or flu.
- someNameIG 4y agoIn a naive population covid is far deadlier than the flu, let alone the common cold. During a Delta wave in NSW, Australia case hospitalisation rate peaked at 14%. And at least in Australia the vast majority of cases of covid happened after people where vaccinated, so on a personal experience level that's why most didn't have a severe sickness from it.
- collyw 4y agoYou actually believe that without question? Most people didn't have a severe reaction to it even before the vaccines. Only very old and very unhealthy people did.