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[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same could be said for the "viruses dont exist" conspiracy.

If viruses don't exist, then that would change the way people live their lives. No masks. No tests. No jabs. No vaccine certificates. No vaccine passports. And on, and on.

Nothing in people's daily life is impacted, if the earth is flat. Nothing changes.

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If viruses don't exist, then that would change the way people live their lives.

No it wouldn't. People don't change their behaviour one iota because of viruses. They may, or may not, change their behaviour because of disease but whether the disease is caused by "poisonous miasmas", viruses, bacteria, prions, viroids, rickettsiae, fungi, amoeba, protozoa, virusoids, helminths (parasitic worms) or something else makes no difference to the majority of them. The more ignorant don't even know or care whether the disease is infectious or not.

Infectious diseases exist. If viruses didn't exist, then there would have to be some other incredibly tiny disease-causing agent existing on the edge of life and non-life, capable of reproduction inside living cells but not outside of them, which can spread from one host to another. Perhaps we could call them "wiroses".

Nothing in people's daily life is impacted, if the earth is flat.

If the world was flat, somebody would have built a holiday resort at the edge, and charged people money to visit the edge.

If the earth were flat, it would impact the transmission of AM radio. It would radically and massively change the way long-distance sailors and pilots navigate. There would be no equator. Anyone with functioning eyes and brain can see the difference in sunrise and sunset as you move closer or further from the equator.

It would impact airline routes, and their profitability. Do you think that dozens of airlines would waste billions of dollars each year flying the long way just to keep up the appearance of a spherical earth? Madness.

The horizon is only about three miles away. On land that's not obvious because of hills and trees and buildings, but at the ocean shore, looking out to sea, it is damn obvious even to the naked eye.

No ocean sailor could ever fall for the flat earth fairy tale. And it is a fairy tale. The ancient Greeks worked out that the earth was round, and they only needed a couple of sticks to do it. No ocean-going civilisation ever thought the earth was flat. The "flat earth" bullshit comes 100% from the made-up cosmology of a desert tribe that wouldn't have known a boat if one fell from the sky and landed on their head.