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I think it's more accurate to say it came out of air slightly thickened by a virus that nobody really understood. All of us are sitting back three years later

I think it's more accurate to say it came out of air slightly thickened by a virus that nobody really understood. All of us are sitting back three years later pontificating on how science overstepped its boundaries, politics used it as a club, and/or screwballs rose to prominence with (sometimes) baseless conspiracy theories[1]. Here in 2023 we're acting like people engaged in these acts mainly with negative intent. I think rather we were a society that was a afraid and didn't know what to do. We made a ton of mistakes and a bunch of silly decisions. A lot of them killed people. Some of them might have changed an election. Many of them also saved lives. [1] Like the lab leak theory. To me that concept has legs.

tivert 3y ago
>> All of us are sitting back three years later pontificating on how science overstepped its boundaries, politics used it as a club, and/or screwballs rose to prominence with (sometimes) baseless conspiracy theories[1]. Here in 2023 we're acting like people engaged in these acts mainly with negative intent. I think rather we were a society that was a afraid and didn't know what to do. "Science" wasted a lot of its credibility by allowing itself to be "used as a club" to imbue certain policy positions with unwarranted confidence. In hindsight, that was a pretty bad mistake. Now people literally use "I believe in science" to state allegiance to certain political positions, which is not good.
- kcplate 3y ago
  This is spot on.