I am not into pushing back to get people to come around to my point of view, but rather, simply to say there is a valid other point of view that exists that isn't mired in conspiracy theories and crazy talk.
I have burned bridges, and I have lost "friends" on social media, the reason being is that they unfriended me after they continuous…
I am not into pushing back to get people to come around to my point of view, but rather, simply to say there is a valid other point of view that exists that isn't mired in conspiracy theories and crazy talk.
I have burned bridges, and I have lost "friends" on social media, the reason being is that they unfriended me after they continuously posted erroneous information surrounding Covid and I would comment on it.
I never called them names, simply would post links on "the science" and studies that would refute his assertions. Finally realizing this, he dumped me as a friend, which did not surprise me at all.
Same experience. Exactly. I posted informative articles that contradicted the narrative. It was my RN aunt who dumped me. C’est la vie. I hope she wasn’t able to convince her children to to vaccinate their children. My aunt has a corrupt nature and lifelong history of bad decisions.
What I found interesting in the social media environments where there was an almost mindless consensus to the narrative, there was a condescending aspect to it. When I brought up Sweden to one "friend" they took it upon them to become their mission to discredit Sweden often citing propaganda perpetuated by all the critics of Sweden, none of which actually discredited Sweden.
They would often compare the best regions to Sweden's worst, again defining number of cases without looking at all other aspects of a society that were affected by the restrictions, lockdowns, and other policies associated with it. Sweden had, throughout the pandemic, showed that through the policy of not mandating masks and all other measures, that those who got the disease, would spread it to other healthy individuals, achieve herd immunity, and thus not need to further cripple and tank their economy and way of life all out of zero case prevention.
One guy even said to me that if green underwear was required to get rid of Covid, he would wear green underwear. I told him that was where we differed, because in order for me to wear green underwear by mandate, there better be a good reason why it was required. And this IS the problem, there is not much in the way of reasons for these policies.
Throughout the ordeal, there was always the chance that I was wrong and to be honest, I half hoped that it was all true. At times, in my contradiction, I thought to myself "Surely this time they will show me the definitive data that proves that lockdowns work, that social distancing isn't arbitrary, where masking has proof, and that the vaccine is everything it promised it would be and more, and that the virus is as deadly as they originally reported." But most of what was posted were articles that I had seen many times before which were mainly observational studies, or theories based on flawed models. Or worse, they were articles of circular logic. This article points to another article asserting that the virus is deadly each without showing why this was/is true.
The worst part about all of this is the children. They wanted the narrative to be all about the children, and they still do. Now they are trying to make it about the children because of all of the peripheral issues in reaction to Covid asserting it is Covid.
If I close down businesses because I mandated it without Covid actually being as detrimental as originally thought, then the problem is not with Covid, but the policies put in place to hypothetically stop it. And yet they are saying that supply chain disruptions and school closings and emotional isolation are due to Covid. No, they are due to false policies created as a fear-based overreaction to a disease that does not harm children in any great measure.
I am not into pushing back to get people to come around to my point of view, but rather, simply to say there is a valid other point of view that exists that isn't mired in conspiracy theories and crazy talk.
I have burned bridges, and I have lost "friends" on social media, the reason being is that they unfriended me after they continuously posted erroneous information surrounding Covid and I would comment on it.
I never called them names, simply would post links on "the science" and studies that would refute his assertions. Finally realizing this, he dumped me as a friend, which did not surprise me at all.
Same experience. Exactly. I posted informative articles that contradicted the narrative. It was my RN aunt who dumped me. C’est la vie. I hope she wasn’t able to convince her children to to vaccinate their children. My aunt has a corrupt nature and lifelong history of bad decisions.
What I found interesting in the social media environments where there was an almost mindless consensus to the narrative, there was a condescending aspect to it. When I brought up Sweden to one "friend" they took it upon them to become their mission to discredit Sweden often citing propaganda perpetuated by all the critics of Sweden, none of which actually discredited Sweden.
They would often compare the best regions to Sweden's worst, again defining number of cases without looking at all other aspects of a society that were affected by the restrictions, lockdowns, and other policies associated with it. Sweden had, throughout the pandemic, showed that through the policy of not mandating masks and all other measures, that those who got the disease, would spread it to other healthy individuals, achieve herd immunity, and thus not need to further cripple and tank their economy and way of life all out of zero case prevention.
One guy even said to me that if green underwear was required to get rid of Covid, he would wear green underwear. I told him that was where we differed, because in order for me to wear green underwear by mandate, there better be a good reason why it was required. And this IS the problem, there is not much in the way of reasons for these policies.
Throughout the ordeal, there was always the chance that I was wrong and to be honest, I half hoped that it was all true. At times, in my contradiction, I thought to myself "Surely this time they will show me the definitive data that proves that lockdowns work, that social distancing isn't arbitrary, where masking has proof, and that the vaccine is everything it promised it would be and more, and that the virus is as deadly as they originally reported." But most of what was posted were articles that I had seen many times before which were mainly observational studies, or theories based on flawed models. Or worse, they were articles of circular logic. This article points to another article asserting that the virus is deadly each without showing why this was/is true.
The worst part about all of this is the children. They wanted the narrative to be all about the children, and they still do. Now they are trying to make it about the children because of all of the peripheral issues in reaction to Covid asserting it is Covid.
If I close down businesses because I mandated it without Covid actually being as detrimental as originally thought, then the problem is not with Covid, but the policies put in place to hypothetically stop it. And yet they are saying that supply chain disruptions and school closings and emotional isolation are due to Covid. No, they are due to false policies created as a fear-based overreaction to a disease that does not harm children in any great measure.