04-30-2020, 10:19 AM
(04-29-2020, 05:38 PM)samhain Wrote: It's all a really strange groupthink. The scariest part is that I'm friends with people I'd otherwise consider fairly sharp that are really into this stuff. I had one start a convo about chemtrails with me about 3 years back. I went along and laughed, thinking he was being sarcastic, but after getting to know him better on a weeklong business trip, I surmised that he was dead effing serious. He's one of the ones pushing the Gates theories on my feed.
I guess you can choose to believe what you like. Questioning authority is a terrific thing to do. Unfortunately, the bar for grounds to question actual authority, like medical scientific authority has gotten pretty low lately. It used to be about having some evidence or research to back something up. Now it's just about not liking what someone's research seems to bear out, and making up a secret squirrel story about intelligence agents with Q clearance discreetly and vaguely leaking out the truth of the world we never knew, lol.
People are incredibly easy to mislead. It would be a lot of fun to start one of these theories just to see who would buy in and what exactly you could make them do to embarrass themselves. Hmmmmmm.
I think you can always question authority. When they take actions like this, it’s up to them to continuously prove themselves. When our health director says we will peak at 6,000-10,000 a day and we don’t even hit 2000, that I’m going to question it. When they say it’s so it because of closing of business and social distancing etc I’m going to be a little sceptical that they made models and didn’t include the mitigating factors they employed. Maybe that’s how models are done, but I’m sure as hell going to question it. That’s wrong by a lot.
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