Posted on 01/04/2021 2:56:25 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
If you’ve read my work, I often compare the manner in which skeptics of the prevailing narratives surrounding Covid-19 are treated to something akin to the Salem Witch Trials or the Spanish Inquisition. Those who try to make a good faith and well-reasoned argument questioning the efficacy of lockdowns or the overall manner in which Covid has been handled are immediately condemned. It’s as if they spoke out against the church, not made a contribution to an important discussion.
Oxford Professor Sunetra Gupta shares her experience with such attacks in her article here. You can also find some of my commentary on related instances here and here. Clearly, none of this is productive at all. The entire idea of the scientific method and a free democratic society, in general, is rigorous debate, not orthodoxy.
It should come as no surprise that a recent study produced by a team of three researchers at three different universities confirms this exact problem. Personally, I would just say that people have lost their minds when it comes to Covid-19 and are not thinking rationally. A press release from the University of Otago in New Zealand puts it more eloquently,
“A collaborative study led by the University of Otago has shown that COVID-19 containment and elimination efforts have become moralised. As a result, people are more likely to accept collateral damage from these efforts, such as social shaming, lost lives and illnesses, and police abuse of power. This moralisation was so strong that people reacted negatively even when COVID-19 restrictions were merely questioned....
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
Thats great
If this were not the case, they would have allowed and promoted the cheap and effective therapeutics already available.
Lol Redrum.
I’d be interested in what a repeat of the study performed today would yield in the way of results.
Given the amount of time to do a study, write it up, submit to a journal, resubmit it after some edits are requested, and get it published, etc. I would imagine the questions were put to the subjects in the early days of the pandemic.
I wonder how closely results would track today.
The need for some religion is built in to the human brain.
Then there are unofficial programs flooding the Internet wherein the mask-obedient population is coached or indoctrinated in how to put down, shame or otherwise force those citing medical experts and therefore not wearing masks into compliance. Here's one small example that "just happens" to be making the rounds.
I think Gov. DeSantis in Florida has done things well. Even the blue SE part of the state’s slowly waking up. I think it’s because things just haven’t panned out the way the doomsayers predicted. Life is basically back to normal. Many stores still require masks to enter, but wearing them below the nose once inside is more and more typical, and nobody objects. There are some exceptions who feel this is wrong, but that’s my observation overall. Spouse went out to dine at a restaurant last week with a friend, said it was very crowded there, and mostly maskless (except at the door, lol). I think if people dared to be public Karens here these days, they would be the ones to get shamed. Normal people are just fed up and tired of the ‘Covuki theater’ (Love that term, wish I remembered who thought of it!)
A Hillsdale imprimis is all about this
She must not have been paying attention to the Global Warming religion over the last twenty years.
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