Overlander wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:09 pm
It was a new virus. There were similarities to past viruses, but no one knew exactly HOW to battle it.
Faucci wasn’t wrong to make the statement that he made, given the limited experience.
I personally witnessed people trying to come to terms with and make plans for a virus that was NOVEL
Right.
How goddamn stupid it is to be playing gotcha games based on things that were basically well-reasoned guesses…on March 8, 2020.
The only thing that was CERTAIN at that point, is that real, actual isolation - not red county/blue county hodgepodge, not performative martyrdom, not isolation-but - would stop the spread.
For a great many reasons, that sort of effective isolation was neither practical nor, in the big picture, the right thing to do. Let alone legal or consistent with our country’s values.
It is simply INCONTROVERTIBLY TRUE that, on a high level, masking is better than not masking. That, on a high level, the vaccines we have are better than no vaccines.
It is also plainly true that addled rubes, goosed on by bad-faith puppeteer-profiteers, are compensating for insecurities and vulnerabilities by becoming vectors not for Covid, but for evidence-light (even evidence-less) conspiracy theories.
It’s really not so different from ancient times, where people made up stories about the gods and their offspring and their desires and whims and so on, because the people did not have the scientific tools to explain the world in which they live. Now, you have huge chunks of the populace who NEED these conspiracy theories to explain their world.
The WHY for that is perhaps the most important area for study in modern psychology. Not least because there is a TON of overlap between the groups who NEED these conspiracy theories, and groups that favor or at least harbor people who do grave damage, in myriad ways, to our order- and rules-based society and its people.
