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You're saying that random bureaucrats deserve unmitigated police power. That's authoritarian and despotic. In fact, average people have the ability and humilit
by lurking15 2y ago
You're saying that random bureaucrats deserve unmitigated police power. That's authoritarian and despotic.
In fact, average people have the ability and humility to do basic ground-level checks that authorities and academics almost never do - a simple ability to step back and say "does any of this even make sense in the context of my own life and what I'm observing?"
All of this "advanced" knowledge of supposed-experts often clouds their judgment and just equips them with sophisticated reasoning ability to give themselves undeserved confidence in their own self-deception, grave errors and misunderstandings.
- craftkiller 2y agoThats quite a leap. You're going from: "The best science we have available during this medical emergency suggests that increasing distance reduces transmission for similar diseases, so we are going to recommend people maintain a 6-foot distance." to "unmitigated police power [...] authoritarian and despotic." The 6-foot "rule" was only a recommendation, not a law. You were entirely free to ignore that recommendation. Not sure where the police are coming in to this?
- lurking15 2y agoPolice power is different than “the police.” 6-foot distance was not just a recommendation it became this bizarre ritual divorced from reality with no actual scientific rational.
- craftkiller 2y ago> 6-foot distance was not just a recommendation Yes it was: > The guidelines are not mandatory source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-school-reopening-guidance/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-school-reopening-guida...
- lurking15 2y agodo you always selectively quote a response and misunderstand what a person is saying?
- kcplate 2y agoYes, CDC issued guidelines. MANY local and state governments took those guidelines and made them mandatory in their districts. It’s misleading to pretend that this wasn’t so and that the CDC had no idea that governments were making their recommendations mandatory.