Ahahhaa, and somehow, you ve got here like a solid 70% of this forum that not only do not question any measure by the governments media and big pharma in the last 18 months, but actively find excuses for any inconsistency and lack of logic for any measure, or the lack of any positive results. These people are mostly phds, bay area engineers, entrepreneurs, highly skilled specialists and scientists mind you. These people work with deadlines, need to show scientific papers, or some working snippet of code, or some working infrastructure at the end of the day. Somehow, they never question the moving deadline for pandemic(2 weeks to flatten the curve) or the abysmal results of vaccination and lockdowns in stopping covid infections and hospitalisations. Covid is truly the afghanistan of the nerds it seems. See you in 20 years.

Excellent point.

I’ve also worked in feminism. None of the scientific results are correct (We often think women have always been oppressed, remembering the right to vote, but disregarding that ILO’s convention on slavery in 1930 excluded men 18-49 - which literally reverses the conclusion about oppression). And yet this scientific field was funded and hyped in 2013-2020.

The common points with Afghanistan and Covid: Every study is slightly wrong enough to lead to an incorrect global picture, and obviously enough that simply reading the studies is enough to find the major flaws; Laws are written in emergency; Actions that are undertaken either amplify the problem or are orthogonal to solving it; Those very actions harm the bystanders in a significant way, enough that it causes major outrage and focalises everyone’s mind.

I wonder to which point they are rotating the topics, whether they have a major cycle on 20 years (otherwise people would get too knowledgeable and able to disprove the sophisms) and a short cycle on 6 years (perhaps election cycle, the swings of the two-party), or whether this is a natural phenomenon emerging from large nations in peace.

Next topic will be something else such as microrobot attacks, so they are not visible but everyone will have to protect themselves.

Science is not static.

I think the downvotes come because I’m saying two unpopular things - the vaccines have known side effects and aren’t perfect (and in some cases the side effects are severe) and that people should still get the vaccine (unless they have a solid medical reason not to).

Neither option is perfect, but at this point I think everyone will get COVID eventually and it’s better for our healthcare system if the population is vaccinated.

The politicization of this has cost the most lives in the pandemic.

I just wish the government, media, and pharma were more transparent on side effects. To be fair, they were for J&J, but 80+ people had paralysis from the other vaccines and this wasn’t really called out as a side effect. That’s enough cannon fodder for conspiracy theorists and anti-vax to hold on to (“what else are they lying to us about!?”) that I think transparency would be better.