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

The infuriating thing is that this was predicted. Precisely the same sources who have been declared verboten in public discourse ("Misinformation!!!") said this was a likely result. Our society is on the route to extinction because people believe what we want to believe based on how it is presented to us. If the story we hear doesn't resonate with what we want to be true, we will ignore it regardless of its accuracy. The authorities have used this hack to control populations since time immemorial. This particular version is worth hundreds of millions of lives at the rate they're going.

Long story short, media narratives trump reality. Mass illness and death will be the result, and most people will never understand why.

Human tragedy.