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> A functioning democracy needs people who question the official line But that's not what's going on. What's going on is people questioning logic itself. At th
by brnt 3y ago
> A functioning democracy needs people who question the official line
But that's not what's going on. What's going on is people questioning logic itself. At the time, we just had no better options, based on the knowledge so far. This being uncomfortable is a far cry from questioning the 'official line', it's just choosing to respond to feeling rather than logic, which is problematic.
Nobodg felt good about Covid and any of it's solutions. They were merely the least worst. Antivaxxers would do well to understand how logical reasoning works, and stop attributing choice, emotion, officialdom, whatnot, where there is none. It's a classic case of projection: because they think so, doesn't mean it's how everyone thinks.
Not doing the logical thing is always inferior thinking and should be recognised as such.
- junofan 3y agoI dunno, hanging on every word from the group of people who’ve been handling AIDS in Africa with little oversight for the past few decades seems pretty illogical. I can now see why their methods may cause a lot distrust.
- hinkley 3y agoYou can’t sit around arguing about emergency procedures in the middle of an emergency. That’s not democracy, that’s stalling for disaster. Sort these things out ahead of time. If you have a problem, that’s when to complain. But people couldn’t be arsed, to the point that a certain future felon cancelled the program meant to deal with things like this.
- brnt 3y agoIf by people handling Aids in Africa you mean various church groups preaching abstinence (by number the largest group active on the subject), then yes, they indeed require immensely more oversight. Please stop picking out the factoids from their contexts; you seem to be missing large parts of the picture.
- HelloNurse 3y agoThere is a simple and scientific question: does this "leaked" DNA in COVID vaccines have adverse effects? Enough to revise vaccination policies, vaccine purification, or the vaccines themselves? No people and no methods are relevant, the only enemy to be concerned with is a virus.
- zolbrek 3y agoFor me, the logic went as follows: The elderly, the sickly, and the obese were the most at risk. Being young and healthy, the risk to me was negligible. The covid vaccines did not prevent transmission, so getting jabbed would not help eradicate the virus. Because of the limited benefits the vaccine would provide to me and its non-sterilizing nature, I decided not to get vaccinated against covid. In the end I got covid, was sick as a dog for a few days, then I was fine. I'm happy with my decision. But I would never suggest to anyone who got the covid vaccine that they made the wrong decision, it's an individual choice to make.
- brnt 3y agoI'm not sure what you mean when you say: the vaccines did not prevent transmission. Getting a shot makes it less likely for the virus to reproduce in your body, so any aerosoles you emit will have fewer or no virus content, which is precisely how it helps reduce transmission, does it not?
- pests 3y agoHe means 100% prevention.