One of my great disappointments throughout this whole escapade has been how bright people I work with in the hard sciences - maths, engineering, physics, chemistry- were and are so willing to accept the corona doom and all that goes with it. For example, at the start of a meeting there is the discussion of how strange and unexplainable i…
One of my great disappointments throughout this whole escapade has been how bright people I work with in the hard sciences - maths, engineering, physics, chemistry- were and are so willing to accept the corona doom and all that goes with it. For example, at the start of a meeting there is the discussion of how strange and unexplainable it is that they had to cancel school because all the vexed teachers came down with COVID just a few weeks into the in-person classes, and they can't wait to get their kids vexed too; then we go into discussing highly technical engineering. It is the most amazing compartmentalizing I have ever seen.
It seems at the small scale i.e. personal experience rather vs a statistical analysis of a large data set, one just can't tell who is going to be a believer or non-believer. I have had many tradesmen working in my house over the last 2 years (even during the height of the hysteria) and they have mostly thought that it's over blown; I suppose their experience 'out and about' (as they that's what they need to do to earn a living) was a) they had not dropped dead, b) they were not tripping over piles of bodies. Conversely, others that I'd have thought would be skeptics have proven to be the biggest bed wetters.
Non-believer for them, believers for you - various clowns and malicious characters on Twitter and some in real life (I know personally of only one or two)
Believers - those who fear the consequences of not being.
One of my great disappointments throughout this whole escapade has been how bright people I work with in the hard sciences - maths, engineering, physics, chemistry- were and are so willing to accept the corona doom and all that goes with it. For example, at the start of a meeting there is the discussion of how strange and unexplainable it is that they had to cancel school because all the vexed teachers came down with COVID just a few weeks into the in-person classes, and they can't wait to get their kids vexed too; then we go into discussing highly technical engineering. It is the most amazing compartmentalizing I have ever seen.
It seems at the small scale i.e. personal experience rather vs a statistical analysis of a large data set, one just can't tell who is going to be a believer or non-believer. I have had many tradesmen working in my house over the last 2 years (even during the height of the hysteria) and they have mostly thought that it's over blown; I suppose their experience 'out and about' (as they that's what they need to do to earn a living) was a) they had not dropped dead, b) they were not tripping over piles of bodies. Conversely, others that I'd have thought would be skeptics have proven to be the biggest bed wetters.
Non-believer for them, believers for you - various clowns and malicious characters on Twitter and some in real life (I know personally of only one or two)
Believers - those who fear the consequences of not being.
Non-believers - neither of the above.