(January 20, 2022 at 9:42 pm)ignoramus Wrote: ^ pretty much.
As we all know, facts and evidence means nothing to people's biases.
We have no say in our beliefs. They are what they are.
There's a reason why the average iq is 100. because half the population is under!
With respect to COVID, facts and evidence were very slim given that it was a new virus, an experimental vaccine type, and the country of origin was hiding its data.
Initially, I was fully on board and lead the implemetation of workplace modifications for our 1500 person facilities. We increased the fresh air intake of our HVAC systems, set occupancy limits (using an MIT formula), introduced air filtration, etc. Etc. It was a major initiative but ultimately modeled after experience based on sars and Spanish flu. I am not saying it was misguided, just that everyone, including the most authoritative sources, were mostly guessing. And that makes sense, for a while, when facing a threatening unknown.
But then it became political, or maybe it was from the beginning, but the "abundance of caution" has not given way to open discussion. It it had, the useless mask mandates would have benn dropped long ago.
Now, me personally, I was one of tbe first to be vaccinated against COVID 19 and boosted. But doing so has spent the last of my trust in the major institutions.
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