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The point of that comment is that millions of people actively choose to ignore the entire concept of a health care system and the science underlying disease. Th
by orev 4y ago
The point of that comment is that millions of people actively choose to ignore the entire concept of a health care system and the science underlying disease. Those people simply wouldn’t care about the differences between Covid and other diseases. They’re certainly not going to care about a WHO fact sheet.
- lolinder 4y agoLiving in a place where the majority of people are COVID skeptics to varying degrees, I can assure you that almost none of them would deny that tuberculosis is deadly. To listen to some of the people here, you would think that it's all-or-nothing: either you believe everything that comes out of the health care system or absolutely none of it. That's not accurate, and treating people that way doesn't help solve the problem.
- zdragnar 4y agoModern civil discourse is depressingly black and white.
- more_corn 4y agoHas it ever been otherwise? Everyone thinks they’ve done their due diligence and arrived at the correct conclusion. The people who disagree are obviously wrong. And maybe they even know it.
- zdragnar 4y ago> Everyone thinks they’ve done their due diligence and arrived at the correct conclusion. I think this is too charitable. So many points of contention have both sides using morality as the justification for their position, and if they are on the side of "what is right" then there's no point even considering the words of the other side, because clearly the others are on the side of "wrong". This is, of course, not an entirely new phenomenon. What is different is that we can communicate more, and faster, than in the past- one might hope that would help us more readily understand each other, but the opposite is proving to be true.