Finally, the cure for COVID-1984...

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[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Wearing a mask is "taking away your life"? Are you fucking retarded or just an entitled prick?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

The economy was collapsed, small businesses destroyed, lively hoods gone, MILLIONS evicted, people are forced to remain at home if they still have one, people fear the hospitals and die unnecessarily, looming food shortages will affect us all - except the wealthy and the ruling class. Get your pompous head out of your ass and recognize the totalitarian overreaction and excuse to take away our liberty while enriching the billionaires.

The masks are PROVEN INEFFECTIVE - especially when people don't use them correctly because they're all as stupid as you.

The masks are only a "polite" symbol of obedience to the totalitarians' new normal.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Oh the wealthy have definitely loved this shit, I agree with you there. All the more reason to try to put an end to it faster, by you know, following the same protocols we have in past pandemics.

Proven ineffective? Umm no? Just the opposite dude.

And they are "polite" in that they message to others "I'm not an idiot who believes conspiracy theories over science"

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

"I'm not an idiot who believes conspiracy theories over science"

You kind of outed yourself right there. That's an increasingly stale trope. So what you're saying is: Doing research and math is a conspiracy theory, and believing what you hear on tv is now called science?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You really think your "research" is better than people who do this for a living? People with doctorates and years of experience and study of that exact thing, people who have dove deep into a specialty?

So it's just Dunning-Kruger to the extreme? Is that what this is?

"Guys I changed my own oil so now I'm a certified mechanic. Take your car to me, not that shop down the street"

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Classic Appeal To Authority fallacy.

An appeal to authority is an argument that something is true because an authoritative institution or individual says its true. This is a common source of propaganda, fallacy and cognitive bias.

History has shown that authority is always right and has our best interests in mind?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Is there an "appeal to a consensus of a multitude of authorities" as well?

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

This doesn't advance your premise. Has history demonstrated collusion of authority?

Has history demonstrated authority suppressing opposing viewpoints?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

To this degree? Not that I'm aware.

And researchers and scientists welcome new ideas and challenges; I'm sure there have been instances otherwise, but again, you'd be arguing they're all doing it at the same time.

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

researchers and scientists welcome new ideas and challenges

Not if it threatens the status quo. Funding friend, funding.

To this degree

The scale of the collusion is not the question..

you'd be arguing they're all doing it at the same time.

Nor, does synchronization detract from the premise of mutual cooperation.

Because something could be beyond your current scope of understanding, does not infer that it is an impossibility.