And a lot of public health advisement is designed/adapted for the lowest common denominator as well. Archived Message
Posted by ATL on November 2, 2023, 14:14:13, in reply to "There was a ton of “do what the science says!” opinionating."
Case in point the prohibition on drinking alcohol while pregnant, which is more or less not a thing in Europe (at least in an absolute sense). Previous Message Ignoring the fact that the key decisions were matters of politics and trade offs rather than empirical questions of fact. How to balance competing interests is not something that has a scientific answer. Previous Message as detailed below Previous Message Previous Message When an issue becomes nuanced, instead of adjusting their worldview, they double down on fiction land. Move the goal posts to wherever they need to be in order to justify outrage. Now, before we get into whataboutism, this toxic closedmindedness is equally infecting the activist left, so for sure there are going to be examples of these "leftists" doing the same thing. The difference...that silly nuance again...is that the GOP has fully absorbed this as dogma. Nuance, curiosity, compromise, questions...all signs of weakness. Dems largely reject this us vs them crap spewed by the vocal minority.
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- covid lockdowns were a giant failure - Ari Gold October 31, 2023, 19:51:16
- Yeah, research seems to agree lockdowns were meh, but vaccines were an immense success* - gvibes November 3, 2023, 11:05:33
- Random thoughts - CoronaTheirAss November 3, 2023, 10:17:02
- why weren’t these kids exercising during the pandy? There are plenty of outdoor sports you can play - bbonb November 2, 2023, 14:23:30
- As a sidejack, it seems like the strongest anti-lockdown people here are from Chicago and SF - DT November 1, 2023, 17:40:05
- They're talking about schools that were remote (only?) for more than half of 2021 - ATL November 1, 2023, 9:09:06
- Dots - DT November 1, 2023, 8:57:43
- Tell me about it* - timmer October 31, 2023, 21:39:00
- As some of us said all along…* - IlliniOllie October 31, 2023, 21:20:11
- I feel seen* - Sounder November 1, 2023, 2:47:56
- I believe you said NO to any and all abatement. Fortunately, it killed some of you.* - complainant October 31, 2023, 21:46:33
- I favored lockdowns in the spring of 2020 - GMAW October 31, 2023, 21:44:55
- The Monday Morning QBing on this thing is pretty ridiculous... - uofi1998 November 1, 2023, 11:09:25
- I mean, over 1 million people died in the US alone. Had we not done lockdowns...* - PDO November 1, 2023, 13:43:46
- I would bet that a lot of these folks who are MMQBing and decrying how early we opened up - IlliniRunner November 1, 2023, 12:33:41
- 100% agree with this - snipes824 November 1, 2023, 11:19:31
- Matthew Perry wasn’t old* - bbonb November 1, 2023, 14:08:32
- When a significant percentage of people think one of the most renowned physicians on the planet... - uofi1998 November 1, 2023, 13:00:13
- the only thing i'm 100% sure about in all this is that we - John Coctostan November 1, 2023, 12:43:24
- Not exactly. Polio and Swine Flu '76 were a big deal, for those who remember. - complainant November 1, 2023, 11:39:44
- And it wasn’t just the unknown - DT November 1, 2023, 11:38:55
- I'll go with the first 2 lines of your post... - EffinIllini November 1, 2023, 9:23:00
- Agreed * - ATL November 1, 2023, 5:28:33
- Agreed. - VIV October 31, 2023, 22:20:25
- This. We didn't know at that time* - UofIL6 October 31, 2023, 22:09:36
- 100% agreed. Lockdowns made sense when it was a novel virus - CanHartlebHireSnider October 31, 2023, 21:54:13
- Schools should have reopened in September of 2020 - bigbop85 October 31, 2023, 22:07:35
- They did. In August 2020. - EffinIllini November 1, 2023, 0:39:49
- I would probably agree with this* - CanHartlebHireSnider October 31, 2023, 22:13:16
- Can you think of anyone, other than children, who's regularly present in a school setting?* - complainant October 31, 2023, 22:29:42
- Yes. The supposedly essential workers who got priority access to the vaccine - GMAW October 31, 2023, 22:39:21
- Right. I’m not sure when the exact right time to reopen school - CanHartlebHireSnider October 31, 2023, 22:41:05
- It was probably bad planning, then, for so many of you to naysay the efficacy of that vaccine. - complainant October 31, 2023, 23:00:21
- WTF are you talking about? - CanHartlebHireSnider October 31, 2023, 23:14:47
- You seem to be contradicting yourself, albeit ingenuously. - complainant October 31, 2023, 23:34:40
- NIH set a goal of 70% for the onset of herd immunity. - Illiniphil November 1, 2023, 14:27:02
- LOL. Imagine still thinking this in 2023* - HamptonSki November 1, 2023, 8:42:06
- LOL, even 100.0% vaccination wouldn't have forestalled community spread - IlliniOllie November 1, 2023, 6:49:46
- Holy shit, man* - illini21 November 1, 2023, 6:43:12
- Lulz we got a vaccine will stop the spread guy - bigbop85 November 1, 2023, 6:17:01
- Pretty sure we got 70-80% of adults vaxxed. That’s pretty good - CubsWonWorldSeries November 1, 2023, 1:36:27
- You’re responding to two of the world’s biggest proponents of the vaccine - GMAW October 31, 2023, 23:06:22
- Once it was ok to protest/riot in May 2020, it was ok to reopen schools* - IlliniOllie October 31, 2023, 21:57:00
- I believe it saved many thousands of lives, but the negative effects continue on* - RSMBob October 31, 2023, 20:58:44
- Dots…. - harb October 31, 2023, 20:31:18
- You guys have your own board/reality. Why here? - complainant October 31, 2023, 20:18:12
- Recommend Reason Interview podcast on Sweden from September - Potomac October 31, 2023, 20:02:35
- It’s pretty wild to look back on now - illini21 October 31, 2023, 19:54:24
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