Seriously, health departments around the world should have offered a fourth Covid certificate during the pandemy - tested, vaccinated, recovered and "will irrevocably forego any right to treatment in a hospital in case of infection". That way all the tinfoil hats couldn't have spread their 'dictatorship' bullshit nearly as easily, because hey, all you have to do in order to be able to go to the pub is to absolve society of the risk of you catching an absolutely harmless and possibly even imaginary cold.
Let a few thousand of those fuckers die and at the same time keep the hospital beds free for those who need them through no fault of their own. Watch the survivors crap their pants and mumble something about science maybe not being so bad after all.
The problem is that some people consider stupidity to be a virtue. That's their right (sadly), but they shouldn't be able to make society suffer the consequences.
You know, people keep asking what America is going to be like 10, 20 or even 50 years from now.
I'm going to tell you that we'll have some of the most spottiest blotches of our history. It'll be rooted from the times and events where extremely aggressive opposers to generally anything intellectual have gone on crusades to undermine anything they think is a huge problem, like scientists.
This will be our Burning of the Library of Alexandria. We'll just have inconclusive data to our researches because of politically charged people.
As someonenin a country that shares a land border with the Americans, I am increasingly concerned about the instability (and likely violence) that will accompany that impending collapse.
I hope sanity can prevail, but it's looking pretty bleak.
Not in its current form at least - this pot is boiling over. Then again, climate change may end human habitation in most areas on earth by then too, so there's that to consider as well:-P.
Like Russia, it's the leftovers of a country clinging to a cold war military machine. When the US pissed away their manufacturing base and killed their unions in the 70s and 80s, it was over.
Hiring the Pinkertons to harass your enemies has historically worked great for US companies, maybe these colleges should take those huge fucking endowments they are sitting on & try a variation of that.
After all, you've got to speak to people in a language they can understand.
Personally, the "just asking questions" transphobes being called on their bigotry doesn't really seem the same as medical researchers getting harrased for trying to find treatments for deadly diseases...but maybe that is just me.
And judges, and journalists, and election counting officials, and engineers (tbf whistleblowers like at Boeing and for train safety may be a different style of targeting, more profit- than politics-driven), and remember the arson of Bernie Sanders house, and the guy with the hammer at Pelosi's, plus all the random people who simply get shot b/c an angry young white man was radicalized, and we should not forget the good police who try to hold the line against the bad ones, and get harassed (possibly killed) as a result.
Also, many doctors and nurses either died or left medicine altogether - some literally left society itself behind as they headed for the hills (mountainous regions farther away from the denser population areas) - due to their experiences during the pandemic, especially from people coming in with guns threatening them to save their loved ones, who ofc at that point were well past saving (a vaccine != a cure).
The USA has not been a first-world nation for a long while (and not just b/c it's an outdated term).
This is what we get when we want BuT oUr FrEeDuMs ThO. Disinformation is deadly. I wish we would remember that the next time Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets out the home address of a fellow congressperson, which surely was not intended for any kind of... "harm", goodness gracious me, why, perish the thought!
I’m not a scientist but work alongside some stuff that was amplified in politics recently and adjacent to scientists and for my wife and my safety, I never tell anyone where I work or what I do. If anyone asks, I work in IT and most people are okay with that.
We risk vandalism, violence, and harassment otherwise. People are angry and ignorant and desperately want blood.
My wife stopped wearing a pentagram and we took down our love your neighbor sign, you know the one that has that same phrase and several different languages...
Turns out the Christians are too unlike their Christ.
I’m really sorry to hear that. Love your neighbour shouldn’t have any sort of political slant to it but I guess we don’t live in that world. We couldn’t put our menorah in the window during chanukkah this year for the same reason. Some people can’t differentiate Jews between Israel’s government and I’m not taking any more chances getting my living room window shot up by BB guns again.
No. It's because of countries like Russia and China pushing conspiracy theories and hateful behavior through things like social media. People don't act like this normally. It's because they are taught to.
If we want to get conservatives on board with environmental protections, we should just start a conspiracy that the perceived rise in trans people, gays, and autistics is due to plastic ester groups in the environment. Then tell them that these groups are represented in the media so much now because the petrolium companies don't want us to see it as a problem when the science breaks.
Brb, gotta go convince some trumpers single use plastic is making their kids gay.
I remember conservative conspiracy types were all over the idea that covid was going to be uncontainably catastrophic right up until the pandemic really happened and the party line was suddenly that actually the virus isn't real after all, at which point they did an about face rather than delivering actually well deserved "told you so"s.
Point being, as soon as they see
the petrolium companies don’t want us to see it as a problem
They will suspect this sentiment is disloyal to their political tribe and definitely automatically discard it on that basis.
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